Accession number
PML 16311
Object title
Ars memorativa.
Uniform title
Ars memorativa. German.
Published
[Augsburg] : [Johann Bämler], [approximately 1480]
Description
[14] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: Hie nach volget ein loblich büchlin. Zů latein genant Ars memorativa gar mit vil selczamen schönen figuren von künstlicher gedächtnus, zů hilff und zů auffenthaltung eins ÿeden menschen natürlicher gedächnus.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bämler's type 3:119G.
Collation: [1⁶ 2⁸]: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
14 woodcuts and 1 printed initial.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 15.4 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bämler's type 3:119G.
Collation: [1⁶ 2⁸]: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
14 woodcuts and 1 printed initial.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 15.4 cm.
Binding
Modern full brown goatskin voer paper boards (20 x 16 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Clarence S. Bemens, bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Oct. 1909.
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