Accession number
PML 37878.2
Creator
Leupoldus, dux Austriae.
Object title
Compilatio Leupoldi ducatus Austrie filij de astrorum scientia decem continens tractatus.
Published
Auguste Vindelicorum : Erhardi Ratdolt, quinto ydus Ianuarij [9 January 1489].
Description
[110] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1943.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf o5r: Compilatio Leupoldi ducatus Austrie filij de astrorum scie[n]tia: explicit feliciter. Erhardi Ratdolt Augusten[sis] viri solertis: eximia industria [et] mira imprimendi arte: qua nup[er] Venecijs nunc Auguest Vindelicorum excellit nominatissimus. Quinto ydus Ianuarij .M.cccc.lxxxix. currente. Laus deo.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G and 9:130G and two Roman fonts about 80 and 100.
Signatures: a-n⁸ o⁶: 110 leaves, leaf o6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 15.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf o5r: Compilatio Leupoldi ducatus Austrie filij de astrorum scie[n]tia: explicit feliciter. Erhardi Ratdolt Augusten[sis] viri solertis: eximia industria [et] mira imprimendi arte: qua nup[er] Venecijs nunc Auguest Vindelicorum excellit nominatissimus. Quinto ydus Ianuarij .M.cccc.lxxxix. currente. Laus deo.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G and 9:130G and two Roman fonts about 80 and 100.
Signatures: a-n⁸ o⁶: 110 leaves, leaf o6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 15.5 cm.
Binding
Quarter 15th-century German (Augsburg) blind-stamped brown sheepskin(?) over beech boards (22 x 16 cm), snew on 3 supports, probably by an Augsburg bindery (includes common Augsburg palmette and Wundervogel stamps, but unidentified); worn and repaired. Front endleaf of paper manuscript waste; plain paper rear pastedown (likely leaf o6 from Leupoldus). 1 clasp, missing.
Variant title
Compilatio de astrorum scientia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Contemporary foliation. Annotations: 1 contemporary marginal notation in text (leaf g2r). Early inscription identify binding or foliation mistakes in 4 quires: "liber ille male est ligatus [??] sex[???] d e f g" (leaf o5v).
Provenance
Füssen (Bavaria), St. Mang, Benedictines, contents inscription, ending: "Ad usum Sancti Mangni in Fuessen, 1588" (leaf a1r of Ailly), monastery dissolved in 1803 and the library went to: Maihingen, Fürstliche Öttingen-Wallerstein Bibliothek, stamp: "F. Öttingen Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek" (rear pastedown), not in library sales: Karl & Faber (Munich), Auk. IX-XI, May and Nov. 1934 and May 1935; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Davis & Orioli, Dec. 1943.
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