Accession number:
PML 660.2
Uniform title:
Couden.
Published:
[Leiden] : [Hugo Janszoon van Woerden], [about 1505]
Description:
[104] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 14 x 10.5 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title and imprint from Nijhoff & Kronenberg.
Collation: a-n⁸: 104 leaves.
Chancery octavo
10 woodcuts.
Entered by Goff working from the imperfect copy at PML (see M.E. Kronenberg in BSA 1955 pp.249-52).
Dated in Bennett catalogue as Leiden or Antwerp, ca. 1510-15.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.3 x 9.5 cm.
PML copy missing 9 leaves: a1-8 and k8 (blank).
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue lombards (blue lombards with red penwork decoration), red capital strokes, underlining, and overpainting on some printed initials. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance:
Miscellaneous sale, Sotheby's London, 17 Feb. 1897, to Pickering (for Bennett?) for £11; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 253, 17/2/97 and price code: wo/o/- (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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