Accession number:
PML 21785
Published:
[Urach] : [Conrad Fyner], [about 1482]
Description:
[110] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1922.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Es ist vo[n] den alten wÿsen der geschlächt der welt dis buch des erste[n] in yndescher Sprauch gedicht ...
Printed in Fyner's type 3:96G.
Collation: [1-5⁸ 6⁶ 7⁸ 8-11⁶ 12⁸ 13-16⁶]: 110 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated by Anton von Pforr and dedicated to Eberhart Graf zu Wirtenberg. The names are given in acrostic initials in the early sections (BMC II 612 reprint, Sotheby's, 1 July 1994, 180).
The second edition (Bühler).
126 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20.7 cm.
Binding:
Contemporary German quarter (25%) blind-stamped calf over beech boards (30.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports by the Blüte frei ornamental I workshop in Leipzig (EBDB w000882/Kyriss 102/103, also identified with the binder Barthel Fuβ), active ca. 1472-1507/1496-1510. 1 clasp, wanting.
Variant Title:
Buch der Weisheit der alten Weisen
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures.
Provenance:
Unidentified incunable shelf marks (former German state library duplicates?): Inc. N. 2912 (leaf [1]/1r), Inc. 578 (leaf [1]/1r), and G, VI, 24 (red crayon) (leaf [1]/1r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Oct. 1922.
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