Accession number:
PML 47299
Published:
Gouda : Gerard Leeu, 23 August 1482.
Description:
[60] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 22 x 15 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1955.
Notes:
4 woodcuts.
Collation: a-f⁸ g-h⁶: 60 leaves.
Colophon (leaf h6r): Dit boeck is volmaect ende gheeyndet ter goude in hollant. by mii gheraert leeu. Int iaer ons heren M CCCC .ende. lxxxii. op fin te bartholomeus auont apostel. laus deo.
Incipit (leaf a2r): Memorare novissima tua. et in eternu[m] non peccabis.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 14.4 cm
Printed in Leeu's Gouda type 2:108G.
The text is ascribed to Dionysius Carthusiensis and to Gerardus de Vliederhoven.
Title from ISTC.
Binding:
19th-century sheepskin blind-tooled in a pastiche of an early style over wooden boards (22 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Vellum pastedowns with plain paper fly leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards with penwork flourishing (in Dutch style), paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No notations in text. Alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures.
Provenance:
Antonius van der Linde (1833-1897), booklabel (front fly leaf recto); unidentified French sale catalogue description, lot 266, tipped-in (front pastedown); Engelbert-Auguste, duc d'Arenberg (1824-1875), no. 722 (blue spine label) and inventory code B,5 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Dec. 1955.
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