Accession number
PML 20554
Creator
Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497.
Object title
Die heyligen reyssen gen Jherusalem.
Published
Mainz : Erhard Reuwich, 21 June 1486.
Description
[180] leaves : ill. ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Printed with Schoeffer's types 7:149G (heading) and 8:93G (text) (cf. GW and BMC).
Title from colophon, leaf [26]/8r: "Dises werck ynnhaltende die heyligen reyssen gen Iherusalem zu dem heiligen grab und furbass zu der hochgelobten jungfrauwen und mertreryn sant Katheryn...."
Collation: [1-2⁸ 3²⁺²⁺²⁺² 4-5² 6-8²⁺² 9-18⁸ 19⁶ 20²⁺²⁺² 21-26⁸]: 180 leaves, including fold-out topographical views.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Including 18 woodcuts and 7 fold-out topographical views (cf. Schramm, Bilderschmuck, XV: 1-26) by Erhard Reuwich.
Fold-out topographic views are: Venice [3²⁺²⁺²⁺²], Modon [6²⁺²], Candia (i.e. Crete) [7²⁺²], Rhodes [8²⁺²], and the Holy Land [20²⁺²⁺²].
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20 cm.
PML copy with quire [20] (The Holy Land fold-out) bound before quire [3] (Venice).
Title from colophon, leaf [26]/8r: "Dises werck ynnhaltende die heyligen reyssen gen Iherusalem zu dem heiligen grab und furbass zu der hochgelobten jungfrauwen und mertreryn sant Katheryn...."
Collation: [1-2⁸ 3²⁺²⁺²⁺² 4-5² 6-8²⁺² 9-18⁸ 19⁶ 20²⁺²⁺² 21-26⁸]: 180 leaves, including fold-out topographical views.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Including 18 woodcuts and 7 fold-out topographical views (cf. Schramm, Bilderschmuck, XV: 1-26) by Erhard Reuwich.
Fold-out topographic views are: Venice [3²⁺²⁺²⁺²], Modon [6²⁺²], Candia (i.e. Crete) [7²⁺²], Rhodes [8²⁺²], and the Holy Land [20²⁺²⁺²].
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 20 cm.
PML copy with quire [20] (The Holy Land fold-out) bound before quire [3] (Venice).
Binding
Modern blind-tooled full brown goatskin, in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (30.8 x 21 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Riviere. Gilt-tooled title on boards and spine. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Booksellers' annotations on front and rear pastedowns.
Provenance
Fürsten von Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt, armorial bookplate "Fürstl. Schwartzburgisches Wappen," ca. 1725 (front pastedown); Henry Huth (1815-1878), "Ex Museo Huthi" armorial booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, 15 Nov. 1911, lot 998; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Jan. 1919.
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