Accession number:
PML 77705
Published:
[Mainz] : [Printer of the 'Darmstadt' Prognostication], [about 1475-1476]
Description:
[10] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1983.
Notes:
Attributed to Sifridus, bishop of Cyrene.
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Darmstadt' Prognostication's type 1:90G.
Collation: [1¹⁰]: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 14.2 cm.
Binding:
19th-century American (New York City) gilt-tooled dark green morocco over paper boards (20 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Alfred Matthews. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endband.
Variant Title:
Responsio ad quattuor quaestiones
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication, red initial, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Frederic Grosvenor Goodridge (1874-1930), bookplate (signed by LAA, dated 1912) (front pastedown); Robert Walsingham Martin (1871-1961), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 verso), sale: Parke-Bernet (New York), 12 Nov. 1963; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Fleming on the Harper Fund, 1983.
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