Accession number
PML 2988
Creator
Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Object title
Doctrinale (Partes I-IV).
Published
[The Netherlands] : [Prototypography], [approximately 1465-1480]
Description
[46?] leaves ; 20 cm
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1908.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
GW dates as: not before 1465, not after 1480. Previously attributed to [Utrecht?: Printer of the Speculum (perhaps Laurens Koster), about 1470-1471].
Printed in type 5:123/124G.
Collation unknown. GW suggests [1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3⁹ 4¹⁰ 5⁹(?)]: 46 leaves.
PML copy on vellum. Two bifolia, leaves [2]/2.9 and [2]/3.8 (leaves 11, 12, 15, and 16).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 22 x 15.5 cm.
Checklist: "Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1938, p. 61ff.; HPT type 5."
GW dates as: not before 1465, not after 1480. Previously attributed to [Utrecht?: Printer of the Speculum (perhaps Laurens Koster), about 1470-1471].
Printed in type 5:123/124G.
Collation unknown. GW suggests [1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3⁹ 4¹⁰ 5⁹(?)]: 46 leaves.
PML copy on vellum. Two bifolia, leaves [2]/2.9 and [2]/3.8 (leaves 11, 12, 15, and 16).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 22 x 15.5 cm.
Checklist: "Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1938, p. 61ff.; HPT type 5."
Binding
Not bound.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and capital strokes. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Samuel Sotheby (1771-1842) and Samuel Leigh Sotheby (1805-1861), the leaves were reproduced in Samuel Leigh Sotheby's Principia Typographica, with the originals included in the author's extra-illustrated copy (PML 3776-85), which was purchased by Pierpont Morgan by 1908.
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