Accession number:
PML 198699.5
Uniform title:
Gospel of Nicodemus (Latin version)
Published:
[Cologne] : [Cornelis de Zierikzee], [approximately 1499-1500].
Description:
[16] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zierikzee's types 1:150G, 2:81G, 3:105G, and 6:150G.
Signatures: A-B⁶ C⁴: 16 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut Crucifixion (with "INRI" reversed) on leaves A1r and C4v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
16th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports (2 double and 2 single) by the Einhorn IIIa bindery (EBDB w003108, southern Germany, active 1478-1514). Manuscript leaf from 12th-century German martyrology, 2-4 August as front pastedown, and plain paper rear pastedown; yellow edges. 1 clasp, missing.
Variant Title:
Euangelium Nycodemi
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks (same in all parts of Sammelband). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified contemporary shelfmark: II G 5 and contents inscription (fore edge) and inscription: "Caspar" (top edge); Alexandre and Elaine Rosenberg, Alexandre Rosenberg bookplate (designed by Picasso) (front pastedown), Rosenberg sale, Christie's NY, 23 April 2021, lot 85, to: Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
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