Accession number:
PML 2194
Published:
Witebergae : Johannes Crato, 1565.
Credit:
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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 (complete list of inscribers in accession file and in lot 507 of A catalogue of an invaluable and highly interesting collection...(London: Sotheby's, 1825).
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 Stelbogen of Leipzig (fl. 1543-1578) whose initials are on the Luther panel.
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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