In spiritu penses hoc opus nec l[itte]ram spectes, federis est vere cultus amicicie.

Accession number: 
PML 144
Author: 
Sprenger, Jakob, 1436 or 1438-1495.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : [Johann Bämler], [1476-1477]
Description: 
[16] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 18 cm. (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Printed in Bämler's type 3:119G.
Date of printing suggested by text, leaves [1]/6v-7r: "Die czal der brüder un[d] schwestern an unser frawen tag den mannen[n]t die verkündung/ heẅr in diser vasten des sechs un[d] sibenczigisten iares [i.e. [14]76] ist zu Kölen gesen als vil asl acht tausent."
Collation: [1-2⁸]: 16 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 column, 22 lines. Printed initials and woodcuts.
Woodcuts include: Enthroned Virgin and Christ Child distributing rosaries (leaf [1]/2v), armorials of Cologne and Augsburg (leaf [1]/3r), Scourging of Christ (leaf [1]/7v), and cross (leaf [2]/2v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18 x 13.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank), or possibly pasted together with [1]/2.

Binding: 
19th-century English half brown goatskin, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (18.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Sanford & Clarke. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endband; yellow edges.
Variant Title: 

Title in ISTC: Die erneuerte Rosenkranz Brüderschaft

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Rosary woodcut (leaf [1]/2v) with red and green wash. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Dr. Wilhelm August Ackermann (1793-1865), stamp: "Dr. WA Pr." (leaf [1]/2r), unknown sale, perhaps through: Oswald Weigel (Leipzig), stamp (front fly leaf verso); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: wo/-/- +___ (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Half bindings (Binding)
Marbled papers (Binding)
Woodcuts
Department: 
Printed Books