Accession number
PML 24642.1
Creator
Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519.
Object title
Electio Maximiliani.
Published
[Mainz] : [Peter Schoeffer], [after 12 March 1486]
Description
[8] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [1]/1v: Codicillus presens indicat nomina principum comitu[m] et baronu[m] qui ad ilustrissimi principis [et] d[omi]ni d[omi]ni Maximiliani archiducis austrie ducisq[ue] burgu[n]die electionem in Romano[rum] rege[m] in opido franckfordensi co[n]uenere.
Printed in Schoeffer's types 6:92G (mixed with 8:93G) and 7:149G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 15.6 cm.
Incipit, leaf [1]/1v: Codicillus presens indicat nomina principum comitu[m] et baronu[m] qui ad ilustrissimi principis [et] d[omi]ni d[omi]ni Maximiliani archiducis austrie ducisq[ue] burgu[n]die electionem in Romano[rum] rege[m] in opido franckfordensi co[n]uenere.
Printed in Schoeffer's types 6:92G (mixed with 8:93G) and 7:149G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 15.6 cm.
Binding
20th-century (after Morgan acquisition) plain paper (22 x 16.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript title: "Electio Regis Ro[ma]no[rum]" (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
Jacques Rosenthal Antiquariat, inv. no.: LB 158506 (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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