Vander vergaderingen der vorsten greuen en[de] heeren te vranckefoirt om te kyesen de[n] roemschen coninc. Ende oec hoe die selue coninc tot aken gecroent en[de] ghesalft wort. Ende war grooter staet ende heerlicheit al daer geschieden.

Accession number: 
PML 195323
Author: 
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519.
Published: 
Antwerp : [Gerard Leeu], [after 27 April] 1486.
Description: 
[22] leaves : woodcuts ; 21 x 14 cm. (4to)
Credit Line: 
Gift of Marianne C. Gourary in honor of Charles Ryskamp, 2009.
Notes: 

Title from title page (leaf a/1r): Vander vergaderingen der vorsten greuen en[de] heeren te vranckefoirt om te kyesen de[n] roemschen coninc. Ende oec hoe die selue coninc tot aken gecroent en[de] ghesalft wort. Ende war grooter staet ende heerlicheit al daer geschieden.
Colophon (leaf d4r): Int iaer Mcccclxxxvi ist volyent Ter eeren des roemschen conincx tantwerpen gheprent.
Explicit (leaf d4v): Die electie coronacie en[de] salvinghe des machtigen roemssche[n] conincs Maximilianus.
Printed in Leeu's Antwerp types 4:100G and 5:82G.
Collation: a-c⁶ d⁴: 16 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
2 woodcuts: coronation scene (leaf a1r) and castle (leaf d4v).
Not in Goff.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 13.2 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century blind-tooled calf in historical style over wooden boards (21 x 14 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Vellum pastedowns and plain paper fly leaves. In paper slipcase.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
Engelbert-Auguste, duc d'Arenberg (1824-1875), no. 423 (blue spine label) and inventory code B,5 (front pastedown); Paul and Marianne Gourary (booklabel), purchased from L.C. Harper, 1956; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Marianne C. Gourary in honor of Charles Ryskamp, 2009.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Woodcuts
Retrospective binding (Bindings)
Department: 
Printed Books