Accession number:
PML 66
Published:
Argentine : per magistrum Johannem Grüninger, 1497.
Description:
[62] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf L4r: Actum Argentine per magistrum Iohanne[m] Grüninger. Anno christo salutifero .1497.
Printed in Grüninger's types 2:90G and 22:89R.
Signatures: A-B⁶ C⁸ D⁴ E-F⁶ G⁴ H⁸ I⁴ K⁶ L⁴: 62 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
CIBN describes a variant.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.7 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
19th-century English full brown goatskin over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports by J. Clarke. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Panegyricus ad Maximilianum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Woodcuts partially colored in pale wash. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations throughout text.
Provenance:
Memmingen (Bavaria), Augustinians, inscription: "Ex libris fr[atre]m Heremita[rum] ordinis D. Augustini in Memingen," 16th century (leaf A1r); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 89, 4/2/95 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification:
Catalog Link:
Genres:
Department: