Accession number
PML 2194
Creator
Melanchthon, Philipp, 1497-1560.
Published
Witebergae : Johannes Crato, 1565.
Description
200 leaves.
Notes
200ff = A-Z, a, b, in 8s.
Part of Georg Stover's album amicorum, with many blank leaves bound in before and after the printed work which contain autograph signatures and inscriptions of theologians and learned contemporaries of the Reformation period (
Part of Georg Stover's album amicorum, with many blank leaves bound in before and after the printed work which contain autograph signatures and inscriptions of theologians and learned contemporaries of the Reformation period (
Binding
16th century German calf binding, gold tooled, with Melancthon and Luther panel portraits and roll border composed of Christ Child and three putti. Bound for Georg Stover of Dillenburg, with his initials and date 1566 on upper board; probably by Thomas St
Provenance
Bound for Georg Stover, 1566 ; collection of Cornelius Ascanius van Sypesteyn of Haarlem, lot no. 507 in his sale at Sotheby's (London), scheduled for 4 June, 1825 ; purchased by Pierpont Morgan with the Irwin Collection, 1900.
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