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Heilsame Lehre und Predigt.

Accession number
PML 27171
Creator
Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann, 1445-1510.
Object title

Heilsame Lehre und Predigt.

Published

[Augsburg] : [Johann Schobsser], Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxix. jare [1489].

Description

[6] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 19.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
City and printer from ISTC.
Imprint date from colophon, leaf [1]/6r: Dise hailsame lere ... Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxix. jare.
Printed in Schobsser's type 1:109G.
Collation: [1⁶]: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Accipies woodcut on leaf [1]/1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.2 x 13.7 cm.
Binding
19th-century full black goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Checklist title: Eine heilsame Lehre und Predigt
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified shelf mark in red ink: c 3, 15th/16th century (leaf [1]/1r; similar found in PML 27167, perhaps suggesting placement in a Sammelband (cf. PML 27167, 27170, and 27171)); E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., cat. 21 (1930), no. 37; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, Feb. 1930.
Classification
Century
Department