Incipit libellus de raptu a[n]i[m]e Tu[n]dali [et] ei[us] visio[n]e. Tracta[n]s de penis inferni [et] gaudijs paradisi.

Accession number: 
PML 42126
Uniform title: 
Visio Tnugdali.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Printer of the 'Historia S. Albani' (Johann Guldenschaff or Conrad Winters, de Homborch?)], [not after 1 December 1472]
Description: 
[20] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1950.
Notes: 

Checklist author name: Tundalus.
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Historia S. Albani' type 1:ca.102G.
BSB-Ink assigns to Conrad Winters.
Dated not after 1 Dec. 1472 in CIBN, about 1473 by Goff.
Collation: [1⁸ 2-3⁶]: 20 leaves, leaves [3]/5-6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
On the "frater Marcus" who is mentioned in the dedicatory letter, see H. Spilling, Die Visio Tnugdali..., München, 1975, p.5-15 (CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century full green goatskin over paper boards (22.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title: 

De eius visione, sive De raptu animae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations, including one large manicule and textual correction.

Provenance: 
George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [iota mu], purchased Feb. 1896 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3828, to: Bernard Quaritch, collation note, 12 Dec. 1917 (rear pastedown); Giuseppe Martini (1870-1944), bookplate and collation note (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from W.H. Schab, Dec. 1950.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books