Accession number
PML 20556
Object title
Incipit liber fraternitatis rosacee corone ad honorem beatissime v[ir]ginis marie.
Published
[Cologne] : [Johann Landen], [about 1500]
Description
[18] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Landen's types 1:140G, 2:65G, and 3:95G.
GW and Hillard date about 1500, Goff dates about 1496.
Signatures: A-C⁶ 18 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Landen's types 1:140G, 2:65G, and 3:95G.
GW and Hillard date about 1500, Goff dates about 1496.
Signatures: A-C⁶ 18 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
20th-century plain vellum over paper boards (20 x 14 cm., sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Checklist title: Liber fraternitatis Rosaceae Coronae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified inscriptions, scraped (leaves A1r and A6r); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), his sale: Sotheby's (London), part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3158; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased by Bernard Quaritch, Jan. 1919.
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