Accession number:
PML 20699
Published:
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [not after 1466]
Description:
[252] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes:
Printed in Mentelin's types 3:92a and 4:121G.
The Manchester JRL copy has a manuscript date of 1466 (ISTC).
Collation: [1-10¹² 11¹⁰; 12-20¹² 21¹⁴]: 252 leaves, leaf [11]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius.
Incipit rubric printed at end (leaf [21]/14r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.3 cm.
Binding:
Modern English half brown goatskin, sides covered in cloth, over paper boards (29.3 x 21.5 cm). Decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, underlining, and capital strokes; headlines identifying chapter number, incipit rubric copied from end (leaf [21]/14r). Annotations: Bibliographic description notes in pencil on 3rd fly leaf, July 1899.
Provenance:
George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown) and price code: [delta lambda alpha], purchased July 1899 (front endleaf 2 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 2036; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1919.
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