Accession number
PML 20963
Object title
Ex diuina ph[ilosoph]o[rum] academia s[ecundu]m nature vires ad extra chyromantitio diligentissime collectu[m].
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger?], [after 1500?]
Description
[32] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from incipit caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Assigned doubtfully to Strassburg in GW, BMC treats as Germany, unassigned. Proctor assigned doubtfully to Speyer.
Printed in Grüninger's types 5*:93G mixed with 11*:92G and 18:82G.
Signatures: a⁶ [b⁶] c-d⁸ e⁴: 32 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 14 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Assigned doubtfully to Strassburg in GW, BMC treats as Germany, unassigned. Proctor assigned doubtfully to Speyer.
Printed in Grüninger's types 5*:93G mixed with 11*:92G and 18:82G.
Signatures: a⁶ [b⁶] c-d⁸ e⁴: 32 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 14 cm.
Binding
Late 19th/early 20th-century full brown calf over paper boards (20 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative (stuck-on) endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Ex divina philosophorum academia secundum nature vires ad extra chyromantitio diligentissime collectum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified ownership inscriptions (partially legible under U): "Ex libris Urbain a Tre[?]oach a calend. Janu. 1556 pass[??]" and below "Liberalitatis R[?]imi M[???] Gorlisb. Ar[??]flaminis 1553" (leaf a1r); Munich, Hofbibliothek, “Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis” stamp and duplicate stamp (leaves a2r and e4v); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [gamma eta] (front endleaf 2 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 2 Feb. 1914, lot 941, for £7.10.0 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown); Bernard Quaritch, Inc., cat. 353 (1919), no. 68, to: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased in 1919.
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