Accession number:
PML 633
Published:
Vniuersitate Louaniensi : per me Lodocivum de Rauescot, [about 1490-1491]
Description:
[46] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Xylographic title, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f7v: Impressum In alma vniuersitate Louaniensi Per me lodouicum de rauescot. [Printer's mark, paritally printed in red]
Dated from paper evidence (WILC). HPT dated not before 1488.
Printed in Ravescot's type 1:80G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁶ f⁸: 46 leaves, leaf f8 blank.
Woodcuts and typographic diagrams.
Textual rubrics printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: f8 (blank).
Binding:
Modern blind-tooled full rust goatskin over paper boards (29 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, with previous front endleaf reversed and reused as rear endleaf; plain endbands; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text, only a couple of textual corrections. Pencil note on title-page, "Bound in russia without cutting letters. Rivo Respons.," 19th century.
Provenance:
John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1507; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding) and price code: om/-/- +___ (rear endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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