Accession number:
PML 24642.2
Published:
[Mainz] : [Peter Schoeffer], [after 27 April 1486]
Description:
22 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1927.
Notes:
Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from ISTC. Polain dates after 28 March 1486.
Printed in Schoeffer's types 4:140G, 6:92G (mixed with 8:93G?) and 7:149G.
Collation: [1⁶ 2⁸]: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
Binding:
20th-century (after Morgan acquisition) plain paper (22 x 16.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title:
Coronatio Maximiliani
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in text, mainly textual keywords to the ceremony. Contemporary manuscript quire foliation: leaf [1]/6 with "3" and leaves [2]/1-4 so numbered.
Provenance:
Jacques Rosenthal Antiquariat, inv. no.: LB 158506 (Electio, leaf [1]/1r), the firm was "aryanized" by the National Socialists in 1935 and operated by Hans Koch, who returned the remainder of the stock to the father of Bernard M. Rosenthal after the war, consigned to sale by Rosenthal (ex-info B.M. Rosenthal, 1990); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., June 1927.
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