De lanijs [sic] et phitonicis mulieribus : ad illustrissimum principem dominu[m] Sigismundu[m] archiducem Austrie tractatus pulcherrimus.

Accession number: 
PML 20619
Author: 
Molitor, Ulrich, active 1470-1501.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Cornelis de Zierikzee], [about 1496-1500]
Description: 
[22] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zierikzee's types 2:81G, 6:150G, and 7:84G.
Polain and PML Checklist date about 1500.
Signatures: A-B⁶ C⁴ D⁶: 22 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.

Binding: 
20th-century quarter green goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: De lamiis et pythonicis mulieribus

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (only one initial fulfilled, leaf a1v). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Bernard Quaritch (collation note on rear pastedown, preserved from previous binding), July 1919.
Classification: 
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