Accession number:
PML 22599
Published:
[Rome] : Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus), [not after 4 October 1470]
Description:
[186] leaves ; 29 x 21 cm. (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1925.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [3]/1r): Incipit compendiosa historia hispanica.
Colophon (leaf [15]/12r): De mandato .R.P.D. Roderici Episcopi Palentini auctoris huius libri. Ego Udlaricus Gallus sine calamo aut pennis eundem librum impressi.
Printed in type 4*:109R.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶; 3-14¹⁰ 15¹²]: 186 leaves, leaf [2]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
Incipits to each part printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.4 cm.
Binding:
Modern quarter red sheepskin over boards (29 x 21 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; speckled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red initials. Annotations: 16th-century(?) Latin marginal notations throughout, some stained from possible bleaching attempt, and headlines. Manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures in bottom center margin, mostly trimmed, 18th/19th century(?).
Provenance:
Unidentified manuscript initials: + E.S. (front fly leaf recto); Eduardo Gutierrez, Pro. of Sevilla, blue ink stamp (front fly leaf recto); E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., cat. VI, no. 49; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, March 1925.
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