Schwabenspiegel: Summarie von kunglichen und keyserlichen darzu landt und lehen rechten.

Accession number:

PML 26028

Uniform title:

Landrecht.

Published:

[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], [approximately 1475]

Description:

[110] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 39 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1928.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [2]/1r: Hie hept sich an d[em] lantrecht bůch hie nach geschriben.
Printed in Zainer's type 2:118G.
Listed under Division B in PML Checklist.
Collation: [1⁶; 2-10¹⁰ 11⁶ 12⁸]: 110 leaves, leaf [12]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcut frontispiece of Holy Roman emperor and court (leaf [1]/6v) and woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 37.1 x 25.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [12]/8 (blank).

Binding:

Early 16th-century German (Bavaria?) blind-stamped half leather over wooden boards (39 x 27 cm), sewn on 5 supports, decorated with tools assigned to the Granatapfel-Rolle workshop (EBDB w003267, active first-quarter 16th century). Plain paper pastedowns,

Variant Title:

Summarie von kunglichen und keyserlichen darzu landt und lehen rechten

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, woodcut initials colored in red, red chapter numbers and capital strokes. Woodcut with painted foliate border, mainly trimmed away. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript title (top board).

Provenance:

Wollfgang Prugken, signature, 15th/early 16th century (leaf [12]/6v); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Hess, Oct. 1928 (with the dealer's inscription on the front pastedown, "the first incunabula crossing the ocean with airship," and with note by Belle Greene in accession book, "transported by Zeppelin").

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books