Tboeck vanden leuen ons heeren Ihesu Christi.

Accession number: 
PML 651
Author: 
Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300-1377 or 1378.
Published: 
Tantwerpen : bij mij Gheraert de Leeu, MCCCC lxxxvij. den derden dach in nouember [3 November 1487].
Description: 
[306] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf oo6r: Tot loue gods en[de] tot heyl en[de] salicheyt alre kerste[n] menschen so in hier voleynt dat eerwaerdighe boec vanden leue[n]. passie. verrisenisse en[de] gloriose opuaert ons heeren ih[es]u [christ]i twelck gheprint is in die zeer v[er]maerde coop stadt Tantwerpen bij mij Gheraert de leeu woenende in die selue stdt in sinte Marcus naest onser vrouwen pant Int iaer ons heeren MCCCC lxxxvij. den derde[n] dach in nouember. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Leeu's types 3:63G and 4:100G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-f⁶ g⁸ h-z [et] [us] A-L aa-oo⁶: 306 leaves.
Paper format:
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 19 cm.

Binding: 
19th century English blind-tooled laced vellum over paper boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports (similar to J. Leighton's bindings for Morris). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Tboeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
D. van den Schrieck (perhaps Désiré van den Schrieck, 1786-1857), inscription: "Ex Bibliothecae D. V. D. Schrieck" (leaf oo6v) and J. Schollaert, signature (leaf oo6v), perhaps through inheritance: Désiré van den Schrieck's daughter Jeanne Marie Ghislaine (b. 1818) married into the Schollaert family; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, this copy replacing one Bennett already owned that was missing leaves oo1 and oo5-6, Bennett's note dated 25 Oct. 1897 with price code: wr/wm/- (front pastedown), which was then then sold off with the Morris duplicates (Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898, lot 772), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographical notes: No. 214, 19/5/96 and price code: rm/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books