Accession number:
PML 20615
Published:
[Cologne] : [Ludwig von Renchen], [about 1485]
Description:
[72] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf [a]1r.
Imprint from ISTC. Printer and date from BSB-Ink. Formerly assigned in BMC to Strasbourg: Printer of the 1483 'Vitas Patrum'.
Printed in Ludwig von Renchen's types 9:90G and 10:170G.
Signtures: [a]-i⁸: 72 leaves, leaf i8 blank. Signature a unsigned.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.5 cm.
Binding:
20th-century quarter black goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (a few initial completed at a later date). Annotations: A few underlinings in text and 1 marginal notation at "Phenix" (leaf b5v). Unidentified early inscription: "Primus amor invenum furor inmode his [?]ieret / Quo tamen euisto postea nullus e[??]" (leaf [a]1r).
Provenance:
Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), with shelfmark: 24.C (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), his sale, Sotheby's, part II, 6 Dec. 1897, lot 2460; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 291 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear endleaf, preserved from previous binding) for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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