Accession number
PML 20610
Object title
Hystori Josaphat und Barlaam.
Uniform title
Barlaam and Joasaph. German.
Published
[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], [about 1476]
Description
[98] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
64 woodcut illustrations. Figures for chapters 16 and 21 exchanged, printed note at chapter 21 states this.
Authorship attributed to Damascenus in text (leaf [1]/2v), but not the Johannes Damascenus from 1st half of 7th century.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸]: 98 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [10]/8 blank.
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.6 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [10]/8 (blank).
Printed in Zainer's type 2:118dG.
Title from colophon (leaf [10]/8v): Eyn ende hatt das bůch der christenlichen lere die hystori Josaphat und Barlaam genannt...
Authorship attributed to Damascenus in text (leaf [1]/2v), but not the Johannes Damascenus from 1st half of 7th century.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸]: 98 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [10]/8 blank.
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.6 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [10]/8 (blank).
Printed in Zainer's type 2:118dG.
Title from colophon (leaf [10]/8v): Eyn ende hatt das bůch der christenlichen lere die hystori Josaphat und Barlaam genannt...
Binding
Modern half brown goatskin over paper boards with sides covered in glazed paper (28.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Glazed paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Barlaam et Josaphat
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red highlights on printed initials and woodcuts, capital strokes and on punctuation, and underlining. Note added by rubricator at chapter 16 that the figure belongs at chapter 21: "dise vigur gehört zu den xxi kapitel und die xvi da heir" (matching printed note stating this at chapter 21). Annotations: No marginal notations. Partially trimmed inscription: "schwarz ga[?]" with red cross in rubricator's ink (leaf [10]/7v). A few woodcuts have minor notations/doodles, ca. 1550 (i.e. leaf [6]/3r). German inscription, 1550: "Ist ain treffenliche, warhafftige hystori. Nutzlich und mit allem vleiss zu lesen [und] (in another hand) wörkh mir Pleistdauff(?)." German bibliographic notations (second front fly leaf recto).
Provenance
German monastic inscription, unidentified, 1554: "Dass püech gehert de[n] kloster zue deg[??]slee zur 1554" (leaf [1]/1r); shelf mark, unidentified: C.it. N. 170 (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified English auction lot description (second front fly leaf recto); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 243 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear fly leaf) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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