Accession number:
PML 22001
Published:
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1470]
Description:
[20] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1937.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1:96G.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Collation: [1⁸ 2-3⁶]: 20 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [3]/5-6 blank.
In the BL and Ghent copies leaves 1 and 14 form one sheet, which thus includes two quires of 6 leaves each. In the copy Paris BN these quires are imposed in the normal way.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy missing 3 leaves: [1]/1 and [3]/5-6 (blanks).
Binding:
17th/18th-century quarter parchment, with paper sides, over paper boards (22 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative, laced endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Sir George Shuckburgh, baronet (1751-1804), armorial bookplate, with shelfmark: a 4 (front pastedown); Joseph Martini, cat. no. XXVII (1937), no. 139 for £195; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Martini, 1937.
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