Accession number
PML 2989
Creator
Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Object title
Doctrinale (Partes I-IV).
Published
[The Netherlands] : [Prototypography], [approximately 1465-1480]
Description
[42?] leaves ; 18.5 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 1:111G.
Collation unknown. GW suggests [1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4⁶ 5¹⁰(?)]: 42 leaves.
PML copy on vellum. A fragment of a bifolium, leaves 2 and 7.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18 x 9.2 cm.
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 1:111G.
Collation unknown. GW suggests [1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4⁶ 5¹⁰(?)]: 42 leaves.
PML copy on vellum. A fragment of a bifolium, leaves 2 and 7.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18 x 9.2 cm.
Binding
Not bound, mounted to modern paper support.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No 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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