Accession number:
PML 23771
Published:
[Cologne] : [Arnold Ther Hoernen], [1477-1484]
Description:
[60] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1926.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf A2r.
Printed in Ther Hoernen's types 2:88G and 3:150G.
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist, and dated [1478].
Signatures: A⁸ C-F⁸ ²F⁸ G-H⁶: 60 leaves, leaf A1 blank. Leaf A2 signed A1, A3 signed A2, etc.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: A1 (blank).
Binding:
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with cloth sides, over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: De regimine rusticorum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red paragraph marks and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript headlines in quires A and C. Signatures corrected in manuscript to include B.
Provenance:
Gilbert R. Redgrave (1844-1941), bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front endleaf 3 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.Ph. Goldschmidt, Aug. 1926.
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