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Coronat[i]o illustrissimi et serenissimi regis Maximiliani archiducis Austrie, [et]c in rege[m] Romano[rum], celebrata p[er] principes el[e]c[t]ores Romani imp[er]ij in Aquisgrano.

Accession number
PML 24642.2
Creator
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519.
Object title

Coronat[i]o illustrissimi et serenissimi regis Maximiliani archiducis Austrie, [et]c in rege[m] Romano[rum], celebrata p[er] principes el[e]c[t]ores Romani imp[er]ij in Aquisgrano.

Published

[Mainz] : [Peter Schoeffer], [after 27 April 1486]

Description

22 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from ISTC. Polain dates after 28 March 1486.
Printed in Schoeffer's types 4:140G, 6:92G (mixed with 8:93G?) and 7:149G.
Collation: [1⁶ 2⁸]: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
Binding
20th-century (after Morgan acquisition) plain paper (22 x 16.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Coronatio Maximiliani
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in text, mainly textual keywords to the ceremony. Contemporary manuscript quire foliation: leaf [1]/6 with "3" and leaves [2]/1-4 so numbered.
Provenance
Jacques Rosenthal Antiquariat, inv. no.: LB 158506 (Electio, leaf [1]/1r), the firm was "aryanized" by the National Socialists in 1935 and operated by Hans Koch, who returned the remainder of the stock to the father of Bernard M. Rosenthal after the war, consigned to sale by Rosenthal (ex-info B.M. Rosenthal, 1990); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., June 1927.
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Department