Accession number
PML 20613
Creator
Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300-1377 or 1378.
Object title
Dat boeck vanden leuen ons liefs heren Ihesu Cristi anderweruen gheprint.
Published
Toe Zwoll : Peter Os van Breda, MCCCC cxv dentwintichsten dach in nouembri [20 November 1495].
Description
[10], I-CCCXLVII (mistake for CCCXLV), [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf N5r: Tot loue gods ende tot heyl ende salichheyt alre kersten menschen soe is hier voleynt dat eerwaerdige boeck va[n]den leuen woerden passie verrisenisse en[de] gloriose opuaert ons heeren ihesu cristi met additien van scoonen moralen en[de] gheesteliken leeringhen en[de] deuoten meditacien en[de] ghebeden int eynde der capittelen. Toe zwoll gheprent by mij Peter os van Breda mit die selue litter ende figuren daer sij Tantwerpe[n] eerst mede gheprent sijn geweest [et]c. Gheeynt Int iaer ons heeren MCCCC cxv. dentwintichsten dach in nouembri. Deo gracias. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Van Os's types 8:100G and type for foliation.
Signatures: [1⁴ 2⁶]; a-f⁶ g⁴ h-p⁶ q⁴ r-v⁶ x⁴ y-z⁶ [et]⁴ [us]⁶; A-C⁶ D⁴ E-G⁶ ²G⁶ H⁶ I⁴ K-Q⁶ R⁴ S-Y⁶ ²A-²B⁶ ²C⁴ ²D-²F⁶ ³G⁴ ²H-²N⁶: 356 leaves, leaf ²N6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.3 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: N6 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf N5r: Tot loue gods ende tot heyl ende salichheyt alre kersten menschen soe is hier voleynt dat eerwaerdige boeck va[n]den leuen woerden passie verrisenisse en[de] gloriose opuaert ons heeren ihesu cristi met additien van scoonen moralen en[de] gheesteliken leeringhen en[de] deuoten meditacien en[de] ghebeden int eynde der capittelen. Toe zwoll gheprent by mij Peter os van Breda mit die selue litter ende figuren daer sij Tantwerpe[n] eerst mede gheprent sijn geweest [et]c. Gheeynt Int iaer ons heeren MCCCC cxv. dentwintichsten dach in nouembri. Deo gracias. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Van Os's types 8:100G and type for foliation.
Signatures: [1⁴ 2⁶]; a-f⁶ g⁴ h-p⁶ q⁴ r-v⁶ x⁴ y-z⁶ [et]⁴ [us]⁶; A-C⁶ D⁴ E-G⁶ ²G⁶ H⁶ I⁴ K-Q⁶ R⁴ S-Y⁶ ²A-²B⁶ ²C⁴ ²D-²F⁶ ³G⁴ ²H-²N⁶: 356 leaves, leaf ²N6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.3 x 19 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: N6 (blank).
Binding
20th-century (after Morgan acquisition) quarter goatskin, with cloth sides, over paper boards (27 x 20 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Boeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Netherlandish rubrication, red and blue) initials, red wedge- and C-shaped paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Woodcuts colored by hand. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Quire ²G corrected in manuscript to "Gg".
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 263 (in black morocco by Riviere) to Quaritch for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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