Accession number:
PML 145
Published:
[Augsburg] : Ludwig Hohenwang, [about 1477]
Description:
[16] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [2]/8v): Ex officina et ductu ludovici hohenwanng de elchingen.
Printed in Hohenwang's type 1:122/123G.
Collation: [1-2⁸]: 16 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Poggius Florentinus.
8 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding:
18th-century English gilt-stamped black morocco over paper boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance:
Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722), shelf mark: LL 3:22 (front fly leaf verso); Sunderland Library sale, Puttick & Simpson, Part III, 17 July 1882, lot 7672, to Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased July 1882 (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf) and bibliographical notes: No. 162, 8/5/96 and price code w[mm?]/-/- +com (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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