Accession number:
PML 129604
Uniform title:
De secretis mulierum.
Published:
[Augsburg] : [Johann Schönsperger], [not before 1494].
Description:
[34] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut). ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2005.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Schönsperger's types 7:175G, 8:76G, and 11:65G.
Signatures: a-b⁶c⁴ d-f⁸: 34 leaves, leaf f8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Text falsely attributed to Albertus Magnus; includes commentary frequently wrongly attributed to Henricus de Saxonia.
"Accipies" woodcut on title-page (Schreiber 3060).
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 18.3 x 13.3 cm.
Morgan copy missing 1 leaf: f8 (blank).
Binding:
19th/early 20th-century half calf with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (19 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title:
Secreta mulierum ab Alberto magno composita.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Edwin Clarke (1919-1996); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Roger Gaskell on the Harper C-1 Fund, May 2005.
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