Selen wurtzgart.

Accession number:

PML 199

Published:

Ulm : Conrad Dinckmut, 26 July 1483.

Description:

[242] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 25 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit of register (leaf [1]/1v): Hie volget nach ein lieplich und nützliche materi. und wirt genant der selen wurtzgart...
Colophon (leaf Gg8r): Gedrucket unnd säliklichen vollendet dÿses bůch von Conrado dinckmůt ze ulm am nechsten samstag nach Jacobi des heyligen czwelff botten. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxiii. jar [etc].
Printed in Dinckmut's type 1bis:120G (identical with Schönsperger's 1:120G).
Collation: [1⁴]; A-Z, Aa-Cc, dd-ee⁸ Ff⁶ Gg⁸: 242 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
133 woodcuts from 19 blocks and initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24 x 17.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: y2, torn out.

Binding:

16th/early 17th-century blind-stamped pigskin over stiff paper boards (25 x 18 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by the Buxheim workshop (EBDB w004321), roll dated 1589. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands. 2 ties, wanting. Manuscript waste previously removed from binding now in ChL files in Printed Books department.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Seelenwurzgarten

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red capital strokes and some highlighting of woodcut initials and woodcuts (stops at leaf C5r). Annotations: A few notations in text, faded/abraded.

Provenance:

Buxheim (Bavaria), Carthusians, stamp (leaf [1]/4v), shelf mark: R. 367 (printed in red on paper on spine), and binding; former shelf mark (also Buxheim?) on spine: 180 (printed on paper, damaged); Buxheim sale, Carl Förster'sche Kunstauktion (Munich), Auk. XXX (Abt. ii), 20 Sept. 1883, lot 3217; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, tipped-in (rear pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Woodcuts

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books