Accession number
PML 20603
Object title
Herbarius
Published
Patavie impressus : [Johann Petri], Anno dom[in]i [et]cetera .lxxv [1485].
Description
[174] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title and imprint from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Printed in Petri's types 1:92G and 2:150G.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-20⁸; 21⁸ 22¹⁰]: 174 leaves, leaf [20]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
150 woodcuts. Woodcut xcvi (Nasturcium) printed upside-down.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 14 cm.
Printed in Petri's types 1:92G and 2:150G.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-20⁸; 21⁸ 22¹⁰]: 174 leaves, leaf [20]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
150 woodcuts. Woodcut xcvi (Nasturcium) printed upside-down.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 14 cm.
Binding
Late 16th-century German blind-rolled calf over wooden boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps, missing.
Variant title
Herbarius latinus (with German synonyms)
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (where required). Woodcuts hand colored. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations throughouth, mainly NB notations. With German catalogue description from Oswald Weigel (Leipzig), Botanischer Lagerkatalog, Neue Folge, no. 53 (1892), no. 297 (front pastedown) but not this copy.
Provenance
Michael Rhasbald, signature "Michaelis Rhasbald 1668" and lower down, in same ink "Margareta" (front endleaf 1 verso); J.B. Holzinger, bookplate (signed by T. Wüst, 1883) (front pastedowns); unidentified English sale catalogue description, no. 7 (rear pastedown); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 203 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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