Accession number
PML 127660
Creator
Brunner, Johann.
Object title
Grammatica rhythmica.
Published
Mainz : [Peter Schoeffer, about 1470-1473].
Description
[46] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the L.C. Harper Fund, 1994.
Notes
Printed in Schoeffer's types 5:118G (text of Part I), 3:91G (notes) and 1:234G (grammatical terminations), and 6:92G (Part II) (BMC).
The date "terseno in anno terdeni jubilaei" (i.e. 1468) on Part I, on leaf [2]/7v must be authorial, specifying the completion of the revision of the text not of the printing. Part II (the supplement) was completed about 1473 (P. Needham in L. Hellinga and J. Goldfinch, eds, Bibliography and the study of 15th-century civilisation (London, 1987), p.44).
Collation: Part I (Text): [1¹⁰ 2⁸]: 18 leaves, leaf [2]/8 blank; Part II (Commentary): [1-2⁸ 3¹²]: 28 leaves, leaf [3]/12 blank.
Paper format: Imperial quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: Text fragments: approximately 24-25 x 18-22.5 cm, and Commentary leaves: 29.2 x 20.7 cm
PML has fragments of 8 leaves from Text (leaves [1]/1-4 and 7-10) and 4 leaves from Commentary (leaves [1]/3-6). Text fragments removed from a binding with glue stains and holes, two repaired tears.
The date "terseno in anno terdeni jubilaei" (i.e. 1468) on Part I, on leaf [2]/7v must be authorial, specifying the completion of the revision of the text not of the printing. Part II (the supplement) was completed about 1473 (P. Needham in L. Hellinga and J. Goldfinch, eds, Bibliography and the study of 15th-century civilisation (London, 1987), p.44).
Collation: Part I (Text): [1¹⁰ 2⁸]: 18 leaves, leaf [2]/8 blank; Part II (Commentary): [1-2⁸ 3¹²]: 28 leaves, leaf [3]/12 blank.
Paper format: Imperial quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: Text fragments: approximately 24-25 x 18-22.5 cm, and Commentary leaves: 29.2 x 20.7 cm
PML has fragments of 8 leaves from Text (leaves [1]/1-4 and 7-10) and 4 leaves from Commentary (leaves [1]/3-6). Text fragments removed from a binding with glue stains and holes, two repaired tears.
Binding
In plastic sleeves, in clamshell box.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Text fragments: Rubricated, red lombards, headlines, paragraph marks, marginal brackets, and inter-linear alphabetical references; Commentary leaves: Rubrication unrealized.
Provenance
Ernst Fischer (d. 1951), of Freiburg; H.P. Kraus, 1994; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Kraus, 29 August 1994.
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