Accession number:
PML 33970
Published:
[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimotercio. Vicesimaseptima mensis Iunii [27 June 1473].
Description:
[129] leaves ; 42 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1937.
Notes:
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC, date from colophon, leaf [13]/10r: Egidii romani. Libri numero tres de regimine principum. Arte quidem impressoria exarati finiunt feliciter. Anno a partu virginis salutifero. Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimotercio. Vicesimaseptima mensis Iunii:.
Printed in Zainer's type 3:107R.
Edition listed under Division A in PML Checklist.
Collation: [1¹² 2-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9-10¹⁰ 11⁸(5+1: vtrum ciuitas) 12-13¹⁰]: 129 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.5 x 27.8 cm.
Binding:
15th-century Austrian plain wooden boards (42 x 29 cm); rebacked in quarter white leather by Deborah Evetts. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands. 2 15th-century catch plates present, but clasps missing. Endleaves and printed waste pastedowns (1 leaf from Zainer's edition of the Leben der Heiligen, Winterteil and 1 leaf from Zainer's edition of Pantheologia) preserved from previous binding, in box.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (when initial not printed). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Lambach (Austria), Benedictines, manuscript title and shelfmark labels: C 58, with later shelfmark: 12 (front board); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, May 1937.
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