Accession number
PML 20589
Creator
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497.
Object title
Die heylighe beuarden tot dat heylighe grafft in iherusalem.
Published
Mainz : Erhard Reuwich, 24 May 1488.
Description
[188] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Collation: a⁸ b⁴ c²⁺²⁺²⁺² d1² d2² d3²⁺² d4²⁺² d5²⁺² e⁸ f⁶ g²⁺²⁺² h-n⁸ o⁶ p-q⁸ r⁶s-z⁸ [et]⁸: 188 leaves including fold-out topographical views, leaf [et]/8 blank.
Fold-out topographic views are: Venice (c²⁺²⁺²⁺²), Candia [i.e. Crete] (d3²⁺²), Modon (d4²⁺²), Rhodes (d5²⁺²), and the Holy Land (g²⁺²⁺²).
Including 11 woodcut illustrations and 7 fold-out topographical views (cf. Schramm, Bilderschmuck, XV: 1-26) by Erhard Reuwich.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.4 cm
PML copy possibly missing leaf [et]/8 (blank) or it has leaf [et]/7 with animals woodcut pasted to it.
PML copy with leaf a1 bound in reverse so that the woodcut is now the recto. Quire [et] repaired; most leaves reinforced in gutter. Leaf k8 repaired at outer edge.
Printed with Peter Schoeffer's type 8:93G (cf. GW and BMC).
Repairs made to fold-outs using paper with other printed images. Repairs to leaf c2v (Venice) using leaf from a rubricated copy.
Fold-out topographic views are: Venice (c²⁺²⁺²⁺²), Candia [i.e. Crete] (d3²⁺²), Modon (d4²⁺²), Rhodes (d5²⁺²), and the Holy Land (g²⁺²⁺²).
Including 11 woodcut illustrations and 7 fold-out topographical views (cf. Schramm, Bilderschmuck, XV: 1-26) by Erhard Reuwich.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 20.4 cm
PML copy possibly missing leaf [et]/8 (blank) or it has leaf [et]/7 with animals woodcut pasted to it.
PML copy with leaf a1 bound in reverse so that the woodcut is now the recto. Quire [et] repaired; most leaves reinforced in gutter. Leaf k8 repaired at outer edge.
Printed with Peter Schoeffer's type 8:93G (cf. GW and BMC).
Repairs made to fold-outs using paper with other printed images. Repairs to leaf c2v (Venice) using leaf from a rubricated copy.
Binding
16th/17th-century parchment with central cartouche stamp over wooden boards (30.2 x 21.2 cm) on 5 double supports with 2 clasps. Plain paper pastedowns; decorative endbands; edges stained dark.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized.
Provenance
Frans Hoerten, inscription: "een van de rarste drits boehken dit men zien mach dit is gairs ham[?]heet" (first rear fly verso); unidentified round, blue label (1.5 cm, three concentric rings: string of pearls, plain band, sunburst), blank (front pastedown); J.E. Capson, 19th-century monogram bookplate with motto "Quaero" (front pastedown); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 105 to Quaritch for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned July 1919).
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