Accession number:
PML 25133
Published:
Piscie : Sigismondo Rodt de Bitsche, [for] Sebastianus [et] Raphael de Orlandis, .iiii. nonas Aprilis .Mcccclxxxviii [2 April 1488].
Description:
[34] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol. and 4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1927.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf e8r: ...Ingenui adolescentes Sebastianus [et] Raphael de Orlandis.... Piscie .iiii. nonas Aprilis .Mcccclxxxviii. Sigismondo Rodt de Bitsche operis architecto.
Printed in Rodt's type 1:86G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-d⁶ e⁸: 34 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto.
Bearer type visible, leaf e8v.
PML copy with leaf c3.4 in quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.7 cm.
Binding:
Contemporary German blind-stamped vellum over beech boards (28.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked by Duprez Lahey. Blind-tooled with the Eyb armorial and bishop's mitre, probably Gabriel von Eyb, bishop of Eichstätt, and a rolled band with the motto "Ich wart des Glucks" (same motto appears on Munich, BSB, Cgm 837, ca. 1500, probably from Rebdorf). Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: 16th-century German marginal notations, throughout first-half, underlining and NB marks.
Provenance:
Gabriel von Eyb, bishop of Eichstätt (1455-1535, bp. 1494-1535), armorial tool on binding, perhaps from Eichstätt Cathedral library; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Dec. 1927.
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