Accession number
PML 481
Creator
Lichtenberger, Johannes, active 15th century, author.
Object title
Pronosticatione.
Published
Impressa a Modena : per maestro Piero fra[n]cioso, Anno domini .Mcccclxxxxii. a di .xiiii. daprile [14 April 1492].
Description
[48] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a1r: Pronosticatione in vulgare rare [et] piu non odita laquale expove [et] dechiara alchuni influxi del cielo: [et] la inclinatione de certe co[n]stellatione: cioe de la co[n]iunctione grande [et] dela eclipse: lequali sono state a questi anni quello de male o de bene demostrano a questo tempo. [et] per la adve[n]ire [et] durarai piu a[n]ni cioe infino al a[n]no .Mccccclxvii.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f8v: Qui finisce questa pronosticatione laqual du rara insino al anno .Mcccclxvii. Impressa a Modena per maestro Piero fra[n]cioso Anno domini .Mcccclxxxxii. a di .xiiii. daprile.
Printed in Maufer's types 8:170G and 9:92G.
Signatures: a-f⁸: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts and printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.7 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: a4.5 and b4.5. Leaf a1 repaired.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f8v: Qui finisce questa pronosticatione laqual du rara insino al anno .Mcccclxvii. Impressa a Modena per maestro Piero fra[n]cioso Anno domini .Mcccclxxxxii. a di .xiiii. daprile.
Printed in Maufer's types 8:170G and 9:92G.
Signatures: a-f⁸: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts and printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.7 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: a4.5 and b4.5. Leaf a1 repaired.
Binding
Modern gilt-tooled full green goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Chatelin. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Pronosticazione
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Graphite underlining and marginal strokes, mostly trimmed (leaf b3v).
Provenance
Sir Edward Sullivan (1852-1928), armorial booklabel (front pastedown); his sales, Sotheby's, 19 and 27 May and 5 June 1890; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and price code: wm/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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