Accession number:
PML 439
Published:
[Florence] : [Bartolommeo di Libri], [after 14 August 1497]
Description:
[40] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Libri's type 2:114R.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶; c-d⁸ e⁶ f⁴: 40 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts on leaves a1r (wayfarer kneeling before altar), b6v (Crucifixion), and f4v (cross and ladder with inscriptions); woodcut capitals.
The latest date found in this collection of letters, rules, prayers, etc., is "In vigilia Assumptionis ... virginis Marie ... M. CCCC. LXXXXVII" (i.e. 14 August 1497).
The text of the last line on e6v is repeated as the first on f1r.
PML copy is quires a-b only (quires c-f from another copy are PML 38788.13).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 cm.
Provenance:
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf) and bibliographical notes: No. 186, 8/5/96 and price code: l/-/- +com (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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