Accession number
PML 18319
Object title
Informatio p[er]utilis de fraternitate et rosario gloriose virginis Mariae.
Published
[Memmingen] : [Albrecht Kunne], [approximately 1500]
Description
[2] leaves ; 18.5 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from GW.
Printed in Kunne's type 6:87G.
Use of both the looped and unlooped 'b' suggests a date before 1505 (Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke).
Doubtfully ascribed by Campbell to the Netherlands, but excluded by HPT on the basis of types.
Collation: [1²]: 2 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 column, 33 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 13 cm.
PML copy previously bound with PML 18320 (ChL 391) as the 4th text in a sammelband: impression on leaf [1]/1 of tab from PML 18320, leaf b6.
Imprint from GW.
Printed in Kunne's type 6:87G.
Use of both the looped and unlooped 'b' suggests a date before 1505 (Typenrepertorium der Wiegendrucke).
Doubtfully ascribed by Campbell to the Netherlands, but excluded by HPT on the basis of types.
Collation: [1²]: 2 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 column, 33 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 13 cm.
PML copy previously bound with PML 18320 (ChL 391) as the 4th text in a sammelband: impression on leaf [1]/1 of tab from PML 18320, leaf b6.
Binding
Modern half brown goatskin, with cloth sides, over paper boards (19.5 x 13.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by the Sherman Bindery (Jamestown, NY). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant title
Informatio perutilis de fraternitate et rosario gloriosae virginis Mariae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Pencil notes by Belle Greene suggesting imprint [Augsburg: Johann Schaur, 1500].
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, June 1908.
Classification
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