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Breviarium Constantiense.

Accession number
PML 78358
Object title

Breviarium Constantiense.

Published

[Southern Germany (Constance?)] : [Printer of the Constance Breviary], [not after 1473]

Description

[594] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1985.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in types 1:138G, and 1*:138G.
Proctor and BMC (II p.401) originally located this press at Augsburg, Cf. however GfT 1323 and 1324. P. Amelung (Frühdruck I p.XVIII) suggests Basel.
For collation, see GW.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.3 cm.
PML copy is 1 leaf only.
Binding
Not bound, in folder.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary notations, partially cut away: "[??7. ewangelia" (verso).
Provenance
Unidentified German provenance, bibliographic description and citations, including "2° 22771 Lz. 83154" (on mat); unidentified British bookseller's price: £6.6.- (on mat); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1985.
Classification
Century
Department