Accession number:
PML 384.2
Published:
Impressum Ferrarie : per magistristrum Laurentium, [about 1497]
Description:
[16] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 11.5 cm (16mo)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit Corona gloriose semp[er] virginis Marie edit super septem sequentib[us] verbis videlicet. Ave mater dei, ora eu[m] pro me.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [2]/8v: Impressu[m] Ferrarie. p[er] magistristrum Laurentium.
Printed in Rubeis's types 2:81G and 5:105G.
Collation: [1-2⁸]: 16 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Median half-sheet sixteenmo. ISTC and GW record as quarto.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 10.7 x 7.4 cm.
Binding:
19th-century English panel-stamped tan calf over paper boards (11.5 x 8 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Corona gloriose semper virginis Marie
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelf mark: 6.F. (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 2744, to Pickering & Chatto for £82.0.0; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 293, 13/12/97 (front pastedow); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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