Accession number:
PML 20621
Uniform title:
Pamphilus de amore.
Published:
[Cologne] : [Printer of Dictys (Arnold Ther Hoernen)], [about 1472]
Description:
[16] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes:
PML Checklist enters this item under "Pamphilius".
According to BMC VII 1125 (note), although assigned variously by Hain to Pamphilus Maurilianus and Pamphilus Saxus, the author of this work is unknown.
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Printer of Dictys's type 1:99G.
A copy in Basel has rubricator's date 1473.
Collation: [1-2⁸]: 16 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.
Binding:
19th-century English full brown goatskin over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Pamphilus de amore
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Later manuscript title (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance:
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 331 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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