Accession number:
PML 23393
Published:
[Ulm] : [Johann Zainer], [about 1482]
Description:
[178] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1926.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Gaistliche uβlegong des lebes Ihesu Cristi.
Printed in Zainer's type 7:96G.
Collation: a-x⁸y¹⁰: 178 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Proctor assigned to Augsburg.
Dated by CIBN. GW dates not before 1478.
95 woodcuts from 89 blocks (with repeats) and initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.6 x 18.8 cm.
Binding:
Modern full red goatskin with gilt-stamped turn-ins over boards (26.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedown and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance:
Joseph Baer & Co., cat. 725, Incunabula typographica, secunda pars, lot 276, catalogue description pasted-in (rear fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Baer & Co., March 1926.
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