Accession number
PML 234
Creator
Methodius, of Olympus, Saint, -311.
Object title
De reuelatione facta ab angelo beato methodio in carcere dete[n]to.
Published
Basilee : per Michahelem Furter, 1.4.9.8. Nonis Januariis [5 January 1498].
Description
[68] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf i6r: Finit Basilee per Michahelem Furter opera et vigilantia Sebastiani. Brant Anno .1.[4.9].8. (with 4 and 9 upside down) Nonis Ianuarijs.
Printed in Furter's types 1:83G, 3:180G, and 4:64G.
Signatures: a-g⁸ h-i⁶: 68 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
Edited by Sebastian Brant.
On the text of (Pseudo-) Methodius see M. Kmosko in Byzantion 6 (1931) pp.273-96 (Sack(Freiburg)).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.6 x 14 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf i6r: Finit Basilee per Michahelem Furter opera et vigilantia Sebastiani. Brant Anno .1.[4.9].8. (with 4 and 9 upside down) Nonis Ianuarijs.
Printed in Furter's types 1:83G, 3:180G, and 4:64G.
Signatures: a-g⁸ h-i⁶: 68 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
Edited by Sebastian Brant.
On the text of (Pseudo-) Methodius see M. Kmosko in Byzantion 6 (1931) pp.273-96 (Sack(Freiburg)).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.6 x 14 cm.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Revelationes divinae a sanctis angelis factae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Unidentified inscription, erased (leaf a1r). No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 117, 20/3/96 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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