Ein büch der heiligen dryer kunig.

Accession number:

PML 53

Author:

Joannes, of Hildesheim, d. 1375.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Knoblochtzer], [about 1483]

Description:

[54] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

58 woodcut illustrations, 5 scenes repeated.
Collation: [a]-b⁸ c-d⁶ e⁸ f⁶ g⁸ [h]⁴: 54 leaves, leaves [a]1 and [h]4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.1 x 20.2 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [h]4 (blank).
Printed in Knoblochtzer's type 4:120G.
Register on leaves [h]1-3.
Schorbach and Sprigatis, Heinrich Knoblochtzer in Strassburg (1477-1484), 41 and 42 distinguish two editions with only minor resetting of type on leaves [a]2r and [a]7v; both editions with the register first.
Title derived from incipit.

Binding:

19th-century gilt-tooled blue goatskin with gilt-tooled brown doublures over paper boards (29.6 x 21cm) sewn on 6 supports by Thibaron. Gilt title on spine with gilt-tooling in spine compartments. Marbled paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges. Armorial of Baron Seillière, Bibliothèque de Mello on boards.

Variant Title:

Liber de gestis et translatione trium regum.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Annotations: "S I E d M b T" and illegible inscription (leaf [h]3r). 19th-century(?) French bibliographical inscription stating work was printed in Augsburg around 1478 by Edwin Tross (third fly leaf recto).

Provenance:

Baron Achille Seillière (1813-1873), Bibliothèque de Mello, armorial binding (not in his 1887 sale at Sotheby's or 1890 in Paris); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Century:

19th century

Department:

Printed Books