Accession number:
PML 205
Published:
Ulm : Johann Reger, 24 October 1496.
Description:
[60] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
36 woodcuts from 34 blocks. Author portrait of Caoursin at colophon.
CIBN reports variants. Some copies with Reger's printer's mark II on leaf h4r.
Collation: a-f⁸ g-h⁶: 60 leaves.
Colophon (leaf h6r): Impressum ulme p[er] ioanne[m] Reger. Anno d[omi]ni [etc.] .M cccc xcvi. Die. xxiiii. Octob[ris].
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy does not have printer's mark.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 20.3 cm
Printed in Reger's type 3:92G.
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Guillelmi Caoursin Rhodiorum Vicecancellarii: obsidionis Rhodie Urbis descriptio.
Binding:
19th-century gilt-stamped red hard-grained morocco over paper boards (31.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by J. Clarke. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: Obsidionis Rhodiae urbis descriptio
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
James Whatman (1777-1843), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), inherited by his son James (1813-1887); his auction, Christie's, 28 July 1887; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 179, 8/5/96 and price codes: rm/-/- +___ (front pastedown) and re/-/- +com (front fly leaf recto) and note: exchanged for my copy 4/97, signed: RY (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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