Accession number:
PML 61
Published:
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Prüss], [approximately 1490]
Description:
[87] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Prüss's type 7:156G and 8:80G.
Signatures: A⁸ B-C⁶ D⁶(4+1: "Hec est dispositio monocordi") E-O⁶: 87 leaves, leaf O6 blank. Inserted fold-out half-leaf after leaf D4
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
2 woodcuts: leaves A1r (repeated on A6v) and A8v, and xylographic music.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
19th-century gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication, contemporary red initials and paragraph marks (C- and [Gamma]-shaped). Annotations: Several leaves with contemporary music notation in margins, in an orange ink. Contemporary inscription on music: "Quo[niam] deb[et] cantari q[oud]lib[et] [???] plagali" (leaf O6v).
Provenance:
Unidentified inscription in modern pencil: S.L.748.59 (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 104, 8/8/95 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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