Accession number
PML 20964
Object title
Ein loblich büchlin von der Gemahelschafft so sich zwischen Got vn[nd] der sele mach gar nützlich vnd fruchtperlichen zelessen ist.
Published
[Augsburg] : getruckt Hanns schönsperger zů Augspurg, sant Ambrosius tag ... .M.cccc. vnd in dem .xcvij. jar [4 April 1497].
Description
[96] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m7v: Das loblich vnd nützlich büchlin hat getruckt Hanns schönsperger zů Augspurg vnd volendet an sant Ambrosius tag Do man zalt nach Cristi geburt .M.cccc. vnd in dem .xcvij. jar.
Printed in Schonsperger's types 4:150G and 6:105G.
Signatures: a-m⁸: 96 leaves, leaf m8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
106 woodcut illustrations, including 8 repetitions.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13 cm.
Morgan copy missing 2 leaves: b8 and c1, replaced in modern facsimile.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m7v: Das loblich vnd nützlich büchlin hat getruckt Hanns schönsperger zů Augspurg vnd volendet an sant Ambrosius tag Do man zalt nach Cristi geburt .M.cccc. vnd in dem .xcvij. jar.
Printed in Schonsperger's types 4:150G and 6:105G.
Signatures: a-m⁸: 96 leaves, leaf m8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
106 woodcut illustrations, including 8 repetitions.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13 cm.
Morgan copy missing 2 leaves: b8 and c1, replaced in modern facsimile.
Binding
19th-century full red goatskin, blind-tooled in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (19.5 x 13.5 cm), sewn 5 supports by Riviere. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Checklist title: Büchlein von der Gemahlschaft zwischen Gott und der Seele
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale: Paris, part IV, 12 June 1884, lot 298; Bernard Quaritch, cat. 353, no. 76; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1919.
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