Accession number:
PML 105
Published:
[Cologne] : [Printer of Augustinus, 'De sancta virginitate' (Ludwig von Renchen?)], [about 1480]
Description:
[22] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Renchen's type 1:90G.
On the identity of the printer, see Corsten (Anfänge) pp.91ff. Previously attributed printing to [Nicolaus Götz?].
Collation: [1¹² 2¹⁰]: 22 leaves, leaf b10 blank.
Paper format: Royal octavo.
Hain and Voulliéme called the format quarto, probably because the book is printed on large paper.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 16.3 x 11.6 cm.
Binding:
Late 19th-/early 20th-century full brown goatskin, blind-tooled in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (17 x 12 cm), sewn on 5 supports by William Pratt. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication (same as in copy 1, PML 104, likely Cologne shop rubrication), red initials, paragraph marks (wedge-shaped) and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelfmark: C 32 (front endleaf 2 recto) and cut-out armorial (front pastedown), not in his sale: Sotheby's, 9 June 1826; William Horatio Crawford, Lakelands, Cork (1815?-1888), bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Lakelands Library sale: Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 200 for £14.15.0 to: Bernard Quaritch, Rough list 115 (June 1891), no. 40 for £20; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso) and purchase notes: No. 207, 15/5/96 and price code: om/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 recto), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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