Accession number:
PML 334
Published:
Venice : Erhard Ratdolt, 28 May 1484.
Description:
[8], 1-66 leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28.5 x 21 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [9]/9r): Erhardus Ratdolt Augustensis impressioni paravit. Anno salutis .M.cccc.lxxxiiii. v. calen. Junii. Venetiis Inclyto principe Johanne Mocenico.
Printed in types 6:76G and 9:130G.
[1⁸; 2-8⁸ 9¹⁰]: 74 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcuts, map.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20 cm.
Binding:
19th-century white paper over paper borads (28.5 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: 15th-century inscription, abraded (leaf [9]/10v). Manuscript family tree of Christ, starting with Emerentia, 16th/17th century (leaf [9]/10v).
Provenance:
John Thynne, 3rd Baron Carteret of Hawnes (1772-1849), armorial bookplate, 1841 (front pastedown); unidentified shelf mark (Carteret?): I 2 (leaf [1]/1r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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