Accession number
PML 524.4
Creator
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Object title
Liber Alberti magni de virtutib[us] herbaru[m], lapidu[m] [et] a[n]i[m]aliu[m] quoru[n]dam.
Published
[Paris] : [Antoine Caillaut], [approximately 1493?]
Description
[36] leaves ; 14 cm (8vo)
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's types 7:65G and 21:112G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁴: 36 leaves, leaf e4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.3 x 9 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: e4 (blank).
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Caillaut's types 7:65G and 21:112G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e⁴: 36 leaves, leaf e4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.3 x 9 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: e4 (blank).
Binding
18th-century French gilt-tooled calf over paper boards (13.5 x 9.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Decorative printed paper pastedowsn and endleaves; red edges.
Variant title
Liber secretorum de virtutibus herbarum, lapidum et animalium quorundam
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and captial strokes (same throughout PML 524). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Albert Philippe Charles Vaernewyck, vicomte de Vaernewyck (1762-1841), manuscript name label (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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