Accession number:
PML 19116.3
Published:
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1468]
Description:
[30] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1a:99G.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-3⁸ 4⁶]: 30 leaves, leaf [4]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm.
Binding:
15th-century German pigskin (tooled only with fillets in blind) over wooden boards (22.5 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns, with vellum reinforcement around book block; plain endbands. 1 strap/peg clasp, missing.
Variant Title:
De contractibus mercatorum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (same style in works 1-3 and 5 in volume). Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations throughout text. Manuscript table of contents for Sammelband (front endleaf 1 recto) and extensive notes at end of volume. Alpha-numeric quire signatures.
Provenance:
Ownership inscription torn away (De simonia, leaf [1]/1r); C. Deterich, signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Eduard Rahir, April 1911.
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