Accession number:
PML 196007
Published:
[Zwolle] : [Peter van Os], [approximately 1496-1497]
Description:
[8] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.2 cm (4to.)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the L.C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2014.
Notes:
Title from a1 recto.
Printed in van Os's types 6:125G, 8A:100G, and 9A:71G.
Dated on paper evidence by WILC (Watermarks in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries). Hellinga, Printing types dates between 26 Mar. 1493 and 1 Dec. 1496. See also M.E. Kronenberg, in Het Boek 26 (1940-42) p. 223-30.
Collation: [a]-b⁴, only leaf b2 signed.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.1 x 13.8 cm.
PML copy with conjugate leaves cut, repaired, and bound as [1]⁸.
Binding:
Modern remboîtage(?), fifteenth-century blind-tooled calf panels set in later leather over paper boards (20.6 x 14.2 cm), sewn on 3 supports; fifteenth-century stamps unidentified. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title:
De contemptu mundi et cultu Dei
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: no notations in text.
Provenance:
W.E.J. Tjeenk Willink (1913-1994); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bruce McKittrick, January 2014.
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