Accession number:
PML 38940
Published:
Burgitana : per magistrum Fredericum Basiliensem, Anno domini .M.cccc.xcviii. die vero .xxv. junii [25 June 1498]
Description:
[32] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 21.5 x 15 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1946.
Notes:
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf d7v): Partes correcte [et] cum diligenti cura emendate: finiunt feliciter: impresse in famosissima [et] legali civitate Burgitana per magistrum Fredericum Basiliensem germanice nationis. Anno domini .M.cccc.xcviii. die vero .xxv. junii. Deo gratias.
Printed in Biel's type 10:140G.
Printed also referred to as Fadrique de Basilea.
Signatures: a-d⁸: 32 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
4 woodcuts and printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.7 x 14.3 cm
Binding:
19th/early-20th century Spanish blind-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 2 supports by V. Arias of Madrid.
Variant Title:
De octo partes orationibus
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Modern Spanish(?) inscription, abraded/illegible (leaf a1r).
Provenance:
Pedro Vindel (1865-1921), see his, Arte tipográfico en España, not in his sales (Madrid, 1896-1929); Ludwig Rosenthal (Paris), catalogue description for 10000 fr., glued-in (front fly leaf verso); Charles Williams Dyson Perrins, booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 4 Nov. 1946, lot 307; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Dyson Perrins' sale, Nov. 1946.
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