Describes works published ca. 1484-1698.
"Fifty copies only were issued of this, the first incunable leaf book (preceded by a leaf book of English Bibles put together by Francis Fry, 1865). Not unnaturally, the various surviving copies of the Klemming Leaf Book vary considerably in their contents, many containing only a single leaf of each incunable represented, and some with lacunae for particular incunables."--Sotheby's (N.Y.), Incunables from the Schøyen Collection (1991; notes by Paul Needham), lot 40.
Illustrated with original leaves and facsimiles of leaves from incunabula and post-incunabula described in the text.
The original leaves were obtained by Klemming from the Swedish royal archives, where they had been used to bind documents. Cf. Sotheby's, Schøyen.
The Morgan Library copy contains original leaves from 7 incunabula: Missale Upsalense, 1484 (on vellum; Goff M-730); Missale Strengnense, 1487 (on vellum; Goff M-722); Missale Aboense, 1488 (on vellum; Goff M-644); Graduale Suecicum, Lübeck, 1493 (on vellum; G-333/GW 10983); Breviarium Lincopense, 1493 (Goff B-1164/GW 5373); Breviarium Strengnense, 1495 (Goff B-1183/GW 5467); Breviarium Upsalense, 1496 (Goff B-1187/GW 5499).
The Morgan Library copy contains original leaves from 3 post-incunabula: Missale Upsalense, 1513 (2nd ed.); Breviarium Arosiense, 1513; and Manuale Aboense, 1522.
The Morgan Library contains facsimiles of leaves from Breviarum Scarense, 1498; Psalterium, Uppsala, 1510; Manuale Aboense, 1522; and Manuale Lincopense, 1525.
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Accession number:
PML 25640.0
Published:
Stockholm : Kongl. Boktryckeriet, P.A. Norstedt & Söner, 1879.
Description:
57 p., [26] p. of plates : mounted samples, mounted facsims. ; 37 cm.
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1928.
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Provenance:
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, June 1928.
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