Accession number:
PML 20601
Published:
[Lübeck] : [Lucas Brandis], [after 3 December 1474]
Description:
[12] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut diagram) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917 (accessioned 1919).
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC, based on GW.
Klebs and Fairfax Murray catalogue attribute to Strassburg or Cologne.
Printed in Brandis's type 1*:111G.
PML Checklist dates as before 28 June 1475.
Collation: [1¹²]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut diagram of zodiac, leaf [1]/3v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14.3 cm.
Binding:
18th/19th-century binding reusing a 15th-century parchment manuscript leaf of Legenda aurea over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; initial on leaf [1]/2r highlighted with gold leaf. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Robert Browning (1849-1912), signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Browning sale, Tregaskis (London), 9 June 1913, lot 683 to Leighton; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 200, purchased by Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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