Accession number:
PML 51
Published:
[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Knoblochtzer], [about 1483]
Description:
[14] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Printed in Knoblochtzer's types 3:96G and 4:120G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶]: 14 leaves, leaves [2]/5-6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcuts: Arbor consanguinitatis ([1]/1v), Arbor affinitatis ([1]/4v), Arbor cognationis spiritualis ([1]/6v), spiritual cognation diagram ([1]/8v), Arbor legalis ([2]/1r), and five exempla and enigmata diagrams ([2]/2v-4v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [2]/5-6 (blanks).
Binding:
19th-century half red goatskin with sides covered in woodgrain paper over paper boards (29.3 x 21.5 cm) by Durpey Lahey (gilt stamp on front turn-in). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: Arbor consanguinitatis
Inscriptions/Markings:
Annotations: Contemporary marginal annotations in Latin.
Provenance:
William Morris, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith (1834-1896), booklabel (front pastedown), round shelf mark label: 1076; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), price code: W/-/- +__; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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