Accession number
PML 221
Creator
Lichtenberger, Johannes, active 15th century.
Object title
Pronosticatio in Latino.
Published
[Heidelberg] : [Printer of the Vocabularius (Heinrich Knoblochtzer?)], [after 1 April 1488]
Description
[38] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 28.5 x 20.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf A1r): Pronosticatio in Latino.
Printed in types 95G and 120G (15:G).
Collation: A-E⁶ F⁸: 38 leaves, leaf F8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
45 woodcuts and 1 initial.
BMC tentatively identified the printer, designated by Proctor the Printer of the Vocabularius, with Johann Zainer. Assigned to Heidelberg by Amelung (Frühdruck I pp.23-24) and by E. Voulliéme in Bok- och Bibliotekshistoriska studier tillägnade Isak Collijn (1925), p.147 (Sheppard). GW attributes printing to Heinrich Knoblochtzer at Heidelberg.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.6 cm.
Leaves in first half of work have repairs to outer edge.
Printed in types 95G and 120G (15:G).
Collation: A-E⁶ F⁸: 38 leaves, leaf F8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
45 woodcuts and 1 initial.
BMC tentatively identified the printer, designated by Proctor the Printer of the Vocabularius, with Johann Zainer. Assigned to Heidelberg by Amelung (Frühdruck I pp.23-24) and by E. Voulliéme in Bok- och Bibliotekshistoriska studier tillägnade Isak Collijn (1925), p.147 (Sheppard). GW attributes printing to Heinrich Knoblochtzer at Heidelberg.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.6 cm.
Leaves in first half of work have repairs to outer edge.
Binding
Modern full brown goatskin in a pastiche of an early style over stiff boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative enbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Some marginal notations, mostly faded/damaged, 16th century.
Provenance
Stuttgart, Königliche Handbibliothek (now Württembergische Landesbibliothek), stamp: Königliche Hand-Bibliothek, 19th century (leaf A1r); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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