Der Teütsch Belial.

Accession number: 
PML 154
Author: 
Jacobus, de Theramo, 1350 or 1351-1417.
Published: 
Augsburg : Johann Schönsperger, 11 October 1487.
Description: 
[82] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf n8r): Hÿe endet sich das bůch Belial genant von des gericht[em] ordnung, ein hochberümt und lobsams werck. Das hat gedruckt Hanns schönsperger in der keyserliche stat Augspurg und vollendet am dornstag nechst vor Galli. Nach christi gepurt M.cccc. und lxxxvii. jar.
Printed in Schönsperger's type 1:120G.
Collation: a⁸ b-m⁶ n⁸: 82 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
38 woodcuts, some repeated, and woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.3 cm.
PML copy missing 5 leaves: a4-5, n2, and n7-8, replaced in manuscript by "F.G." from copy in the Vienna Hofbibliothek in mid-19th century.

Binding: 
19th-century glazed cloth over (original?) wooden boards (28.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. 1 clasp, wanting. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title: 

Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Belial

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Woodcuts and woodcut initials colored by hand. Annotations: No notations in text. 16th-century foliation in top center of rectos.

Provenance: 
Hans Ley, inscription (leaf a1r); M[arcus?]. Schwarz, the younger of Augsburg, inscription and ink stamp, 1556; Daniel Anshalm de Augusta, inscription with cypher "M. G. K. [crosses] I. W." (pastedown); St. Dombrowsky, Polonus, inscription dated 23 Jan. 1577 (leaf a1r); Alb. Poplawski, inscription, St. Dambrowski, 28 Jan. 1577 (rear pastedown); F. G., unidentified individual who wrote out the missing leaves from the copy in Vienna (after 1825) and initial ink stamp (leaf a1r; see other examples in IPI, Bod-inc, and CUL); Schloss Erlaa (Alterlaa) Bibliothek (Princes Starhemberg), Vienna, library label, 19th century; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf verso) and bibliographical notes: No. 172, 8/5/96 and price code wm/wm/- +com (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Woodcuts
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Department: 
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