Accession number:
PML 104
Published:
[Cologne] : [Printer of Augustinus, 'De sancta virginitate' (Ludwig von Renchen?)], [about 1480]
Description:
[22] leaves ; 20 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Renchen's type 1:90G.
On the identity of the printer, see Corsten (Anfänge) pp.91ff. Previously attributed printing to [Nicolaus Götz?].
Collation: [1¹² 2¹⁰]: 22 leaves, leaf b10 blank.
Paper format: Royal octavo.
Hain and Voulliéme called the format quarto, probably because the book is printed on large paper.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 14.2 cm.
Binding:
19th-century (English?) hard-grained brown morocco over paper boards (20 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication (same as in copy 2, PML 105, likely Cologne shop rubrication), red initials, paragraph marks (wedge-shaped), and capital strokes. Contemporary foliation (with puncti): .245-.265.. Annotations: No marginal notation
Provenance:
Previously part of a Sammelband, contemporary red foliation beginning at .245.; Francis William Caulfeild, Earl of Charlemont (1775-1863), his sale: Sotheby's London, 11 Aug. 1865, lot 240 for £10.5.0 (the bulk of the Charlemont library, meant to go on sale in July, was destroyed by a fire a Sotheby's facility in June 1865); Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), entire library purchased in 1900 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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