Accession number:
PML 75080
Published:
Impresse Albie : [Johann Neumeister], Anno domini. Mil.cccc.octuagesimo primo. Et die xvii. mensis novembris [17 November 1481].
Description:
[30] leaves : illustrations (metalcuts) ; 24 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1976.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a1v.
Imprint from colophon, leaf d7r: Expliciunt meditationes revere[n]dissimi patris et d[omi]ni d[omi]ni Johannis de Turrecremata Sacro sancte Romane ecclesie cardinalis. Impresse albie. Anno domini. Mil.cccc.octuagesimo primo. Et die xvii. mensis novembris.
Printed in Neumeister's type 4:98G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c⁶ d⁸: 30 leaves, leaf d8 blank.
Paper format: Median quarto.
33 metalcuts, which were first used in Neumeister's edition of the Meditationes in Mainz, 1479.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24 x 16.8 cm.
Binding:
19th-century French full dark brown-purple over paper boards (24.5 x 17 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Gruel. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Illegible inscription, abraded (leaf a1r); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), French Books, no. 555 (many of his French books went to Rahir and then Charles Gillet (1879-1972)); Edmée Maus (1905-1971), no. 1119, monogram booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus, 1976.
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