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Dit bok het Lucidarius.

Accession number
PML 33631
Object title

Dit bok het Lucidarius.

Published

Lubek : va[n] Matheus brandis, Anno d[o]m[ini]. M.cccc.lxxxv [1485].

Description

[40] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 x 15 cm. (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1937.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r).
Colophon (leaf [5]/7r): Ghedrukket in der keiserlike[n] stat Lubek va[n] Matheus brandis. Anno d[o]m[ini]. M.cccc.lxxxv.
Printed in Brandis's type 2:98G.
Collation: [1-5⁸]: 40 leaves, leaf [5]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
5 woodcut illustrations, woodcut initials.
The text is derived from the Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis (Verfasserlexikon 2, Bd 5 col 939ff).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.3 x 14.5 cm., with deckle edges.
Binding
18th-century half calf, with sides covered in sprinkled paper over paper boards (22 x 15 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; deckle edges.
Variant title
Lucidarius [Low German]
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoratino: No rubrication required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Bibliographic references (front pastedown and front fly leaf verso) and Quaritch collation statement (rear pastedown).
Provenance
Ernst II, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1745-1804), gilt monogram: crowned E, with date 1776 (front cover) and shelf mark: Mon typ 1485. 4° 3. (front pastedown); Gotha, Ducal Library, "Bibliotheca Ducalis Gothana" stamp, ca. 1800 (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Feb. 1937.
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Century
Department