Ain register v̈ber das bůch vo[n] dem weg zů dem heilige[n] grab od[er] gelobte[n] land, vnd wundern hie mit begriffen.

Accession number:

PML 43610

Author:

Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300-1377 or 1378.

Published:

[Augsburg] : [Ludwig Hohenwang], [approximately 1477]

Description:

[122] leaves ; 20 cm (4to and 8vo)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1952.

Notes:

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Hohenwang's type 1:122G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4-13⁸ 14⁶]: 122 leaves, leaf [14]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto and Royal octavo (quire [1] and leaves [2]/2-9).
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.5 cm.

Binding:

Late 19th/20th-century case binding of full brown goatskin over paper boards (20 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.

Variant Title:

Weg zu dem heiligen Grab

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, capital strokes, and underlining (stops at leaf [4]/6, initial on leaf [1]/4r unrealized), some initials realized in later ink. Annotations: Later (18/19th-century?) sporadic marginal notations in text, predominatly providing translated names for cities, animals, and peoples in text, i.e. in ch. lxviii, greifen is identified as "An Girafa?," ch. lxxi, Bladoch is identified as "Bagdat," and ch. lxxxv, baldebini is notated as "Bedouins". Unidentified reference: "Liber rarissimus vid. Catal. Bibl. Ludewingian. p. 899, n.6448 in not.", likely a Thuringian library catalogue.

Provenance:

William Roth (volume appraised for Roth by Ranschburg in May, 1952; see dept. ChL file); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Otto H. Ranschburg, June, 1952.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Annotations (Provenance)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books