Accession number:
PML 2991
Published:
[The Netherlands] : [Prototypography], [approximately 1465-1480]
Description:
[14] leaves ; 19 cm
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1908.
Notes:
Title and imprint from ISTC.
GW dates as: not before 1465, not after 1480. Previously attributed to [Utrecht?: Printer of the Speculum (perhaps Laurens Koster), about 1470-1471].
Printed in type 5:123/124G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶]: 14 leaves.
PML copy on vellum. A bifolium, leaves [1]/4.5.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18 x 15.5 cm.
Binding:
Not bound, mounted to modern paper support.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: De octo partibus orationis
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Samuel Sotheby (1771-1842) and Samuel Leigh Sotheby (1805-1861), the leaves were reproduced in Samuel Leigh Sotheby's Principia Typographica, with the originals included in the author's extra-illustrated copy (PML 3776-85), which was purchased by Pierpont Morgan by 1908.
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