Accession number:
PML 99
Published:
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zell], [approximately 1475]
Description:
[100] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from leaf [1]/3r.
Printed in Zell's type 2:115G (leaded to 121).
GW dates as ca. 1472.
Collation: [1⁸(+8*) 2-10⁸ 11⁶ 12⁸(+8*) 13⁴]: 100 leaves. Variant collation in GW.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.9 x 21.5 cm.
PML copy's manuscript quire signature suggest the work was originally bound after another: quire 3 signed r, 8 signed y, 10 signed z, 12 signed β.
PML copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Binding:
19th-century purple gilt-tooled, straight-grained morocco over paper boards (30.8 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports, by R. P. Schavye of Brussels. Plain endbands, pink silk doublures and fly leaves.
Variant Title:
Comoediae.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks throughout, red capital strokes; red and blue lombards with pale green and red filigree decoration and yellow wash on leaves [1]/1v and [1]/3r. Annotations: Manuscript quire signatures, mostly trimmed.
Provenance:
Francois Joseph Vergauwen (1801-1881); his sale, Brussels, 11-15 March 1884, lot 1091; James Ludovic Lindsay, Earl of Crawford (1847-1913), Crawford signature and note purchased at Vergauwen sale (front endleaf 2 recto); Crawford sale, "Bibliotheca Lindesiana," Sotheby's, 13 June 1887, lot 1967, to Quaritch for £48; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), bibliographical notes, No. 148, 6/5/96 and price code el/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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