Accession number:
PML 643
Published:
Ghepreyndt te Delff : [Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer or Christiaen Snellaert], .M.CCCC ende .lxxxviij. Den .xxij. dach van Meye [22 May 1488].
Description:
[304] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf oo4r: Hyer voleyndt dat eerwerdighe boeck vanden leuen: passie. vrisenisse: en[de] gloriose opuaert ons lief here[n] Ihesu [chr]isti Ghepreyndt te delff in holla[n]t Int iaer o[n]s here[n] .M.CCCC ende .lxxxviij. Den .xxij. dach van Meye:.
Printed in Snellaert's types 1:104G, 3:220G, and 4:93G, and assigned on the basis of paper, see M. van Delft, in Codices manuscripti, Supplementum 2 (Jan. 2010) pp. 19-32.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-z [et] [con] A-L⁶; aa-nn⁶ oo⁴: 304 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26 x 19.3 cm.
Binding:
Modern full brown goatskin over boards (27 x 20 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Deborah Evetts, 1970. Modern paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt and gauffered edges.
Variant Title:
Tboeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Gijsbrecht van Gheel, of Bergen op Zoom, inscription: "Desen boeck hoest ons ghegene[n] meester ghysbracht van gheele Canoninck te berghe[n] opte[n] soo[n]," 15th century (leaf oo4v); Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), his sale, Paris, part IV, 12 June 1882, lot 363; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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