Accession number:
PML 127899
Published:
[Rome] : [Johann Besicken and Sigismundus Mayer], [after 26 December 1495]
Description:
[6] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the L.C. Harper Fund, 1997.
Notes:
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Printed in Besicken and Mayer's type 3:111R.
GW assings to Stephan Plannck (type 10:108R) ca. 1496. BSB-Ink assigns to Besicken alone.
Collation: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Woodcut on title page depicting the stoning of St. Stephen.
Sermon delivered on 26 Dec. 1495, St. Stephen's Day.
Dedicated to Cardinal Oliviero Caraffa (1430-1511).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
Modern reuse of 15th-century Italian liturgical manuscript over paper boards (19 x 14 cm).
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: No notations in text. Formerly 6th text in a Sammelband.
Provenance:
Joseph Baer, cat. 725 (1926), no. 305, cat. 745, no. 531, cat. 774, no. 162, cat. 780 (1931), no. 768; John Francis Neylan (1885-1960); his sale, Sotheby's, 28 May 1962, lot 53, to Davis & Orioli; Martin Breslauer; Otto Schäfer (1912-2000), monogram stamp and shelf mark 1071 (rear board), purchased in 1975 from Breslauer; his sales Sotheby's NY, Part I, 8 Dec. 1994, lot 124 (bought in) and 4 Dec. 1996, lot 274 (bought in); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Sotheby's, 1996.
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