Accession number:
PML 226
Published:
[Basel] : [Michael Wenssler], [approximately 1488]
Description:
[10], LXXXV, [15], LXXXVI-CCXXI, [13] leaves : illustrated (woodcut) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC.
GW dates about 1488. Undated in Goff, CIBN dates between 1486 and 1490. Dated about 1494 in Weale-Bohatta.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰; a-i⁸ k⁶ l⁸; [2]¹⁴; m-z A⁸ B-C⁶; D⁸ E⁶ F⁸; aa-bb⁶: 260 leaves, leaves l8, [2]/14, C6, and F8 blank. Quire [1] signed leaves ii-v, quire [2] signed leaves ii-vii.
Printed in black and red.
Chancery folio. 2 columns, 28 lines; canon: 1 column, 14 lines. Types 13:158G, 14:158G, and 15:229G. 5-line initial spaces, with guide letters printed in red.
Woodcut Crucifixion on leaf [2]/1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.3 x 21.5 cm.
Binding:
16th-century blind-tooled Swiss pigskin over partially-bevelled wooden boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports [possibly bound at Augsburg -- suggestion from Bennett cat. based on rolls]. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. 2 clasps, partially missing. Parchment fore-edge tabs.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication (where needed), blue lombards. Crucifixion woodcut hand colored. Annotations: A few 16th-century "see folio" citations in text.
Provenance:
Wolfgang Coriarius, purchase inscription: "Hic liber sacer missale spectat ad Wollffgangu[m] Coriarij Solodori Sacallanum Et Empt[us] aparochianis Rusticis In vilagio winigen [Weiningen, Switzerland?]: Anno domini 1527: In die Hilarii [13 January]" (leaf [1]/1r); James Elwin Millard (1823-1894), bookplate (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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