Accession number:
PML 77703.4
Published:
Augustae Vindelico[rum] : In Sigismundi Grim[m] medici & Marci Vuyrsung officina excusoria, Anno virginei partus .M.D.XVIII. sexto kalen[das] Octobres [26 September 1518]
Description:
[30] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund, 1983.
Notes:
Imprint from colophon, leaf g5v.
Translation of Consiglio contro la pestilenza.
The woodcut on t.p. depicting a sickroom examination is attributed variously to Hans Weiditz or to Hans Burgkmair.
Signatures: a-f⁴ g⁶
Dedicatory epistle by the translator, Hieronymus Ritius.
Binding:
16th-century English panel-stamped calf over wooden boards (22 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports, with the Tudor royal arms (English royal arms on front; Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon on rear). 2 clasps, missing.
Provenance:
[Previously presumed to be from the library of Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon because of binding, but not in Carley, Libraries of Henry VIII.] Unidentified pencil shelfmark: 10.9 (leaf [1]/1r; each work in volume enumerated 10.7-10.10); Boies Penrose (1902-1976), Old East India House bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso) (his sales, Sotheby's, 5 Feb. 1934, 19 Nov. 1945, or 27 Jan. 1947?); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from John F. Fleming on the Edwin H. Herzog Fund, 1983.
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