Accession number
PML 205
Creator
Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501.
Object title
Obsidionis Rhodie Urbis descriptio.
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.
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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