Dit is die tafel vanden navolghende[n] boeck des gulden throens ...

Accession number: 
PML 77100
Author: 
Otto, von Passau.
Published: 
In dis stat van Utrecht : [Printer with the Monogram, t. G.], .M.CCCC. ende lxxx ... den xxxsten dach in die meert [30 March 1480]
Description: 
[4], I-C.xcvij leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased as the gift of Mr. Edwin H. Herzog, 1981.
Notes: 

Title from table incipit, leaf [1]/1r: Dit is die tafel vanden navolghende[n] boeck des gulden throens of der xxiiij ouden en[de] hoeme[n] elke[n] vijnden mach en[de] va[n] hoerre leerighen die si lere[n] om te come[n] totten ewighe[n] leve[n].
Imprint from colophon, leaf [26]/5v: Bider gracie[n] gods so is die boec gheprint en[de] gheeynt in dis stat va[n] utrecht. Int iaer ons heren .M.CCCC. en[de] lxxx op den vitten donredach de[n] xxxste[n] dach in die meert.
Printed in the Printer with the Monogram's type 1A:120G. GW identifies printer by monogram, t. G.; also cited as t. C.
On the printer, sometimes wrongly thought to be Gerardus de Leempt, see HPT I p.47.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-25⁸ 26⁶]: 202 leaves, leaf [26]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [26]/6 (blank).

Binding: 
Contemporary Netherlandish blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (30 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked and repaired. Vellum pastedowns and plain paper endleaves.
Variant Title: 

Boeck des gulden throens

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks, some capital strokes and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
[Gotha, Forschungsbibliothek (cited by ISTC; unclear source)]; unidentified Dutch inscription: "lansloodt vande veldt[?] Alias vander Gijnde, L.V.S.L. Paulij S. nequam," 15th century (rear pastedown); Gysbrecht vanden Kerc Hoeven, inscription: "Desen boeck hoertoe Gÿsbrecht vanden Kerc Hoeven tot Brussel A[nno] 1601" (front pastedown); unidentified Dutch inscription, including bibliographic note on authorship and printing: "Hy behoort toe Jonckl. [abraded] huysvrouwe vander Raedt [abraded]," 17th/18th century (leaf [1]/1r); Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), booklabels, Incun. 106 (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 182, to Kraus for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Mr. Edwin H. Herzog, April 1981.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books