Accession number
PML 20588
Object title
Sand Brandons buch.
Published
[Augsburg] : [Anton Sorg], [about 1476]
Description
[20] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Hie hebt sich an sand Brandons Buch was er wunderes erfaren hat.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰]: 20 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [2]/10 blank. Variant collation in BMC.
Paper format: Chancery folio
BMC ascribes the translation to Johann Hartlieb. The text is distinct from the Legend of St. Brandan, issued by Sorg with the Historie Herzog Ernst von Bayern.
Woodcuts and printed initials.
Bearer type visible on leaf [2]/2r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [2]/10 (blanks). Several leaves with repairs, including leaf [2]/1 with repaired fore edge.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰]: 20 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [2]/10 blank. Variant collation in BMC.
Paper format: Chancery folio
BMC ascribes the translation to Johann Hartlieb. The text is distinct from the Legend of St. Brandan, issued by Sorg with the Historie Herzog Ernst von Bayern.
Woodcuts and printed initials.
Bearer type visible on leaf [2]/2r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [2]/10 (blanks). Several leaves with repairs, including leaf [2]/1 with repaired fore edge.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with linen sides, by Deborah Evetts, 1978.
Variant title
Die wunderbare Meerfahrt des hl. Brandan
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Bertram Ashburnham (1797-1878), Earl of Ashburnham, with shelf mark: 6.B. (front fly leaf verso); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 780; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 96 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear fly leaf) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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