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Accession number:
PML 28070.1
Published:
Impressum Maguntie : [Peter von Friedberg], [after 13 November 1494]
Description:
[30] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1931.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r, printed in red.
Printing city from colophon, leaf E6r. Printer and date from ISTC.
Printed in Peter von Friedberg's types 1:81G and 2:141G (mixed with 3:149G).
Prefatory letter to Johannes Lapicida from Rutgerus Sicamber dated 13 Nov. 1494.
BSB-Ink dates as not before 13 Nov. 1494.
Signatures: A-E⁶: 30 leaves
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.7 cm.
PML copy on vellum.
Binding:
Contemporary German calf, blind-tooled with rosette and leafwork tools, over wooden boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports, some stamps similar to those from the "Wappen-Meister I" bindery in Limburg (EBDB w002106); rebacked and repaired by Duprez Lahey. Modern paper pastedowns and endleaves, with original manuscript waste endleaves (front and rear endleaves from different manuscripts). 2 clasps.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes (same style in works 1-3, different style in 4-5). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified signature: Albertij No[???]ij (front manuscript waste, leaf 2r); unidentified signature: Ex libris D[omi]ni [abraded] (De laudibus Carmelitarum, leaf A1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Wirtheim, Jan. 1931.
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