Accession number:
PML 111
Published:
Impressa in sancta Colonia : per me Henricum Quentell, M.cccc.xcij [1492].
Description:
[42] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
The text is ascribed to Dionysius Carthusiensis and to Gerardus de Vliederhoven.
Imprint from colophon, leaf g5v: Finiunt exempla de gaudijs regni celorum: Et aliorum trium nouissimorum. Impressa in sancta Colonia per me Henricu[m] Quentell. Anno domini M.cccc.xcij.
Printed in Quentell's types 3:180G, 6:63G, and 7:80G.
PML Checklist: "Second press Division A."
Signatures: a-g⁶: 42 leaves, leaf g6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut, Accipies cut on half-title page, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 14.2 cm.
Binding:
19th-century English limp parchment (19.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports, laced with 2 green ribbon ties, by Kelmscott bindery (Doves?). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; dark blue/green edges.
Variant Title:
Quattuor novissima cum multis exemplis pulcherimis qui sunt occasio salutis
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified German library duplicate, inscription: "Dpl" (leaf a1r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), 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, laid-in) and price code: w/-/- +___ (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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