Accession number:
PML 45
Uniform title:
Barlaam and Joasaph. Latin.
Published:
[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Eggestein], [not after 1474]
Description:
[148] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
PML Checklist author name: Joannes Damascenus.
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Eggestein's type 5:93G.
Collation: [1-14¹⁰ 15⁸]: 148 leaves, leaf [15]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.2 x 13.1 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [15]/8 (blank).
Binding:
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with decorative paper sides, over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: Gesta Barlaam et Josaphat
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoraton: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and capital strokes. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations in text. Quires numbered in Arabic numerals in upper margin of each first leaf, and with alpha-numeric quire signatures at bottom-right (mainly trimmed).
Provenance:
Edward Shipperdson (1780-1855) (bookplate cited in Bennett catalogue, no longer present in volume); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, inscription dated 1890 (front endleaf 3 recto, preserved from previous binding), entire library purchased in August 1896 by: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), sold off the Morris duplicates (Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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