Psalterium Dauidis cum humnis.

Accession number:

PML 77092

Uniform title:

Bible. Psalms. Latin. 1497.

Published:

Liptzensis : impressus per Cunradum Kachelhoven, M.cccc.xcvij [1497].

Description:

[1], i-cxlv, i-xvii, [1] leaves ; 43 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased as the gift of Mr. Edwin H. Herzog, 1981.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, printed in red.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [et]6r: Psalmo[rum] dauidis liber finit felicit[er] impressus per Cunradu[m] kachelhoue[n] famosi opidi Liptzen[sis]. conciue[m]. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.xcvij.
Printer's device, leaf ²C6r.
Printed in Kachelofen's types 4:72G, 8:168G, and 11:340G.
Signatures: A⁸ B-Z [et]⁶; ²A-C⁶: 164 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Half-title, headlines (folio number), rubrics, initials, and music staves printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41 x 28.5 cm.

Binding:

16th-century German blind-stamped calf, over wooden boards (43 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps, 4 corner bosses and a central boss on each board.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Psalterium cum hymnis

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricaiton not required. Annotations: Music notation and lyrics added by hand; music pasted-over with paper slip (leaf G5v). Many leaves with marginal losses, sometimes with textual losses, and repaired; quires ²A-C perhaps from another copy as the manuscript music is unrealized and there are several marginal notations in a hand not present in the earlier quires.

Provenance:

Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. [unnumbered], booklabels (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 80; 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