Eyne ynnyge lere van der dope der kyndere, unde wo men sick dar in holde[n] schal.

Accession number: 
PML 51791
Author: 
Proles, Andreas.
Published: 
Gedrugket und volendet in der stad Magdeborch : dorch Symon mentzer, Am dinxstage na Petri pauli Im gnadenriken iare Cristi gebort .M.ccccc [30 June 1500].
Description: 
[10] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 18.5 cm. (4to)
Credit Line: 
Gift of the Fellows, 1962.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b3r: Gedrugket und volendet in der stad Magdeborch dorch Symon mentzer, Am dinxstage na Petri pauli Im gnadenriken iare Cristi gebort .M.ccccc.
Printed in Koch's types 1:160G (or 2:160G?, title) and 6:90G (text).
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 column, 30 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
The format is not 12°, as stated by Goff (P. Needham in L. Hellinga and J. Goldfinch, eds., Bibliography and the study of 15th-century civilisation (London, 1987), p.54 n.6).
Woodcut of baptism on title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.1 x 14 cm.

Binding: 
Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (19 x 14.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves
Variant Title: 

Lere van der dope der kyndere

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Illegible German inscription, "Wnfen genapt," 16th(?) century (leaf a1v).

Provenance: 
Wolfenbüttel, Herzog August Bibliothek, stamps and deaccession stamps (leaves a1v and b4v), evidence of fore-edge tab suggests it was previously part of a Sammelband; Lathrop C. Harper, Inc.; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of the Fellows, 1962.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books