P[rae]fatio in epitome[m] de ludo arithmomachiȩ

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Accession number:

PML 77703.3

Author:

Sherwood, Johannes.

Published:

[Rome] : [Stephan Plannck?], [after 1 April 1482]

Description:

[14] leaves : woodcut illustration ; 22 cm (4to & 8vo)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund, 1983.

Notes:

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r: "...Ioha[n]nis Shiruuod quod lati[n]e interp[re]tatur li[m]pida silva sedis apostolice p[ro]tonotarii anglici p[rae]fatio in epitome[m] de ludo arithmomachiȩ feliciter incipit.
Imprint from ISTC. Explicit, leaf [2]/6r-v, dated: Rome ipsis ka-lendis aprilibus Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxxii.
Printed in Plannck's type 3:101R.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶]: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto and Royal octavo.
Blind bearer type (perhaps 4:62G) visible, leaf [2]/6v bottom margin.
Woodcut illustration, leaf [2]/1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 13.8 cm.

Binding:

16th-century English panel-stamped calf over wooden boards (22 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports, with the Tudor royal arms (English royal arms on front; Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon on rear). 2 clasps, missing.

Variant Title:

Epitome de ludo arithmomachiae

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: 16th-century manuscript contents list (front endleaf 1 verso), early manuscript calculations (pastedowns and endleaves). Fore edge manuscript title. No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

[Previously presumed to be from the library of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon because of binding, but not in Carley, Libraries of Henry VIII.] Unidentified pencil shelfmark: 10.9 (leaf [1]/1r; each work in volume enumerated 10.7-10.10); Boies Penrose (1902-1976), Old East India House bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso) (his sales, Sotheby's, 5 Feb. 1934, 19 Nov. 1945, or 27 Jan. 1947?); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from John F. Fleming on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund, 1983.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

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