Accession number:
PML 82
Published:
[Cologne] : [Arnold Ther Hoernen], [about 1472]
Description:
[34] leaves ; 18.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from caption, printed in red, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Ther Hoernen's type 1:100G.
PML Checklist dates as [1472], GW and BSB-Ink date as [ca. 1472]. Dated between Feb. 1471 and 1475 by Torchet, Catalogues régionaux, V:824.
Collation: [1-3⁸ 4¹⁰]: 34 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.1 x 12 cm.
PML copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Binding:
19th-century English gilt- and black-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (18.5 x 12.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by John Wright. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
De origine nobilitatis
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, wedge-shaped paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown, decoratively cut by Inglis), not the copy in his 1835 sale; John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf mark: C 46 (front endleaf 3 recto) and cut-out prints on front and rear pastedowns, including armorial (front pastedown) and birthday wishes printed in gold and colors on silk doily with note: "14th February 1864, aet. 84" (rear pastedown), bibliographic notes, including: "No other copy yet known 1869" (front pastedown and front endleaf 1 recto), letter to Inglis from J. Ph. Berjeau on identity of printer as Ther Hoernen (tipped-in at rear pastedown), part of library inherited by his son: Cornelius Inglis, M.D. (1824-1907), booklabel (front pastedown), sold part of his father's collection, Sotheby's, 11 June 1900, lot 649 for £12 to Pickering for: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 2 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 314, 14/6/1900 and price code: wo/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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