Accession number:
PML 128540.5
Published:
Impressum Auguste : per Iohannem Froschawer, Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.xcviij [1498].
Description:
[12] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b5v: Impressum Auguste per Iohannem Froschawer. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.xcviij.
Printed in Froschauer's types 3:92G, 4:130G, and 5:74G.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves, leaf b6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Corrected and edited by Michael Lochmaier.
A reprint from the 1497 edition. Variant from Hain noted in BMC.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
15th/early 16th-century Salzburg blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (21,5 x 15 cm), sewn on 2 supports by the bindery at the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, Salzburg (EBDB w002790, aka Salzburg St Peter IV, active second-half of the 15th century-1564). 1 clasp. Manuscript title label on top board, with second label, perhaps former shelfmark, missing. Manuscript waste of early liturgical book with heighted neumes as binding reinforcement and quire guards.
Variant Title:
Secreta sacerdotum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (same style as previous section). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified shelfmarks: H.2.83 and I.A.23 (front pastedown); abraded inscription (leaf a1r of Speculum anime); Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (cited in Goff Supplement); Walter Goldwater (1907-1985), his sale, Swann Galleries, part II, 5 Dec. 1985, lot 121 for $84,000; Helmut N. Friedlaender (1913-2008), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, part I, 23 April 2001, lot 119, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased (via HP Kraus) on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
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