Lucidarius.

Accession number:

PML 75889

Published:

Augsburg : Hermann Kästlin, 27 June [14]81.

Description:

[34] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Fellows Capital Fund, 1979.

Notes:

5 woodcuts and initials. The woodcuts were previously printed in Sorg's 16 June 1480 edition (ISTC il00332230) and the woodcut initials also belonged to Sorg; the Fall of Satan woodcut (leaf [1]/3v) Zainer's Spiegel des Sünders of about 1478 (ISTC is00675000).
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-4⁸]: 34 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Colophon (leaf [4]/8v): Gedruckt un[d] vollendet in der keyserlichen stat Augspurg von Herman kästlin An mitwoch nach sant Joha[n]s tag des tauffers Anno domini [etc.] In dem .lxxxi. jare.
Not in Goff.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.5 x 18 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: leaf [1]/1 (blank), [1]/2 (replaced in fascimile) and [3]/8.
Printed in Kästlin's type 1:119G.
The text is derived from the Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis (Verfasserlexikon 2, Bd 5 col 939ff).
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Dis bůch heysset Lucidarius, d[em] spricht zů teusch also vil als eyn erleuchter.

Binding:

Modern use of 2 vellum leaves from missal with printed music (leaves [16]/5r and [16]/8r from Missale Frisingense, Freising: Sensenschmidt and Petzensteiner, 31 August 1487, ISTC im00660000/GW M24388; see also ChL 575M) over paper boards (25.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: Several marginal notes in a contemporary German hand, 16th/17th century. Modern price codes: DF/-/- and KN/-/- and price notations (front pastedown).

Provenance:

Several unidentified modern British price code annotations; Solomon Pottesman (1904-1978); his sale, Sotheby's London, 15 Oct. 1979, lot 263, to Quaritch for £1100; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Quaritch, 1979.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Woodcuts

Printed waste (Binding)

Music types (Type evidence)

Department:

Printed Books