Lucidarius.

Accession number:

PML 76742

Published:

Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 2 March 1479.

Description:

[32] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1980.

Notes:

3 woodcuts.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹²]: 32 leaves, leaf [3]/12 blank.
Colophon (leaf [3]/11v): Getruckt und vollendt zů Augspurg von Anthoni Sorgen Andem Afftermo[n]tag nach sant mathias tag des zwölffbote[n] Anno [etc.] In dem .lxxix. jare.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML Checklist enters this item under Honorius Augustodunensis.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.6 x 18.9 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [3]/12 (blank).
Printed in Sorg's type 2:118G.
The text is derived from the Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis (see Verfasserlexikon, V:939ff).
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Diβ bůch heÿsset Lucidarius. das spricht zů teütsch also vil als ein erleüchter.

Binding:

Modern full brown calf over boards (27.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Woodcuts 1 and 2 and woodcut initial colored by hand. Annotations: A few 16th-century marginal notations noting key concepts.

Provenance:

Salzburg, St. Peter (Benedictines), inscription: Conventus S. [Petri, abraded] Salisburgi, 17th century (leaf [1]/1r); Robert B. Honeyman (1897-1987); his sale, Sotheby-Parke Bernet, Pt. V, 12 May 1980, lot 2059, to Laurence Witten for £7600; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Witten, Oct. 1980.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Inscriptions

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books