Accession number:
PML 222
Uniform title:
Martyrologium.
Published:
[Basel] : [Bernhard Richel], [about 1474]
Description:
[184] p. ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated by GW as before 28 April 1475, in BMC as not after April 1475.
Printed in Richel's type 1:119G.
Signatures: [1-8¹⁰ 9-10⁶]: 92 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 33-34 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.5 cm.
Binding:
18th/19th-century quarter black morocco, with mottled paper sides, over paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary (southern German?) rubrication, red lombards and yellow capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
J.N. Gibbors(?), signature (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified French bibliographic notes, partially erased (front fly leaf verso); unidentified bibliographic description, citing Quaritch catalogue of 1871, signed O.D. (front fly leaf verso); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896 , armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: o/wm/- +___ (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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