Evangelia.

Accession number:

PML 31166

Published:

Lübeck : [The Poppy Printer (Hans van Ghetelen)], 1492.

Description:

[10] ix-cccxlvi [1] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1935.

Notes:

65 woodcuts in text.
Collation: a⁶ aa⁴ b-x⁶ A-C⁶ D⁸ E-H⁶ AA-PP⁶: 348 leaves, leaf PP6 blank.
Colophon (leaf PP5v): Hir heft eyn ende dyt eddel boek / Alse de Epistolen unde Ewangelien ock. / Na cristus bort verteyn hundert iaer. / so men schref xcii dat is war / Vor sunte Jacobs daghe so bereth. / Alle ewangelien dorch dat iaer myt welker glosen gheseth. / Noch de Leccien unde Profecien dar to. / Bode tho loue unde tho eren also. / Hir synt ock van den hylghen klar. / Epistolen unde Ewangelien dorch dar gantse iaer. / To Lubeck in der keyserliken stad bereth. / Etlike andere Epistole[n] un[de] Ewa[n]gelia mede ingheseth. / Lof unde ere sy der dylghen drevoldicheyt. / Ere sy Marien. unde allen hylghe[n] in der ewighe[n] salicheyt. / Nu unde alle tyd in ewicheyt Amen. Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.xcii. Lubeck.
Incipit of table (leaf a2r): Hir beghinnet de tafele. este regyster des bokes der profecien. leccien. un[de] des hilghen ewa[n]gelii over dat gantze iaer...
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 19.7 cm
PML copy with final blank (leaf PP6) used as rear pastedown (partially detached from board), although Schramm XII, plate 30, no. 214 (Last Supper) not present in this volume and might belong on final leaf.
Printed in the Poppy Printer (Hans van Ghetelen) types 1:98G, 4*:160G, and 5:80G.
Printed named after the 3rd shield on leaf PP5v (colophon), while the 4th was assumed to be a cypher for the printer's name. These two shields are also represented in one of the woodcut borders used throughout the text.
The Poppy Printer was formerly identified as Matthaeus Brandis, see BMC II 556: "... the anonymous press which employed the device of a shield containing three poppy-heads was chiefly active from 1487 to 1497, a period coinciding with the disappearance and subsequent reappearance of Matthaeus Brandis; and the theory that Brandis and the Poppy Printer were one and the same was first started by Seelmann ... and afterwards adopted by Proctor."
Title from leaf a1r.

Binding:

Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (29.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the so-called Pelikan 50/51 bindery in Northeim, Germany (EBDB w000255). The fleur-de-lis and pelican (S-S II, Pelikan 50/51) stamps are attributed to an anonymous Northeim bindery, but the 6-petalled flower stamp is very similar to one found in the Hildesheim, Christuskopf workshop (EBDB w000207). 9th-century(?) manuscript leaves used as pastedowns, removed, text offset to boards; final blank used as subsequent rear pastedown; plaited endbands. 2 clasps, wanting (forked catch plates); 4 round bosses on bottom board, top and bottom edges with brass fittings, and horn shield over title label on top board.

Variant Title:

Epistolae et Evangelia (Plenarium) [Low German]

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Woodcuts hand-colored in red, yellow, and ochre. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations in text related to use of text on specific Sundays.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, January 1935.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Woodcuts

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Furniture (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books