Malogranatus.
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Accession number:
PML 23172
Published:
[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Eggestein], [not after 1473]
Description:
[216] leaves ; 42 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1925.
Notes:
Also attributed to Pierre de Zittau, abbot of Königsaal (cf Hillard 857).
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Eggestein's type 4:99G.
On the date, see BMC reprint; Polain dates 1474.
Collation: [1¹⁰ (-10) 2⁶; 3-11¹⁰ 12-13⁸ 14⁶ 15-23¹⁰]: 216 leaves, leaf [1]/1v with printed register or blank and leaves [2]/6 and [23]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36.5 x 28.5 cm.
PML copy without printed register, leaf [1]/1v.
Binding:
15th-century German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (42 x 29 cm), sewn on 4 supports, by a Landshut bindery with tools similar to those assigned to the Raute vierfach workshop, also know as Landshut-Nachfolger (EBDB w000032/Kyriss 165, active 1472-96); rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns. Fore edge tabs. Clasps and bosses missing.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary German (Landshut?) rubrication, red (and some black) initials, red headlines, paragraph marks, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified inscription (shelfmark?): "L. FR. 1.," 17th/18th century (leaf [23]/9v); Vienna, Bundesdenkmalamt, stamp (front pastedown); Gilhofer and Ranschburg, unidentified catalogue, no. 49; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gilhofer and Ranschburg, Dec. 1925.
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