Accession number
PML 75838.2
Creator
Nider, Johannes, approximately 1380-1438.
Object title
De morali lepra.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [C.W.], [not after 1471]
Description
[76] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in memory of Commander Conrad Alexander Bühler, 1979.
Notes
Assigned to C.W. (sometimes identified tentatively as Clas Wencker or Conrad Wolfach) by Needham, "Four Strasburg Incunables." Formerly attributed to Koberger, 1471 by Hain; cf BMC II 409 doubting the ascription to Koberger.
Printed in C.W.'s type 1:110G.
Copy in München BSB (2 Inc.s.a. 914/1) has a buyer's incription with the date 1471.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6-7⁸ 8¹⁰]: 76 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 20.4 cm.
Printed in C.W.'s type 1:110G.
Copy in München BSB (2 Inc.s.a. 914/1) has a buyer's incription with the date 1471.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6-7⁸ 8¹⁰]: 76 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 20.4 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Northeastern French/Flemish illumianted initial (leaf [1]/1r), red and blue lombards and paragraph marks (C-type), red capital strokes (same in PML 75838.1); some capital strokes like tiny paragraph marks. Headlines with Roman numeral for book number and "M A" (materia?) cypher. Ink ruling in margins for notes. Annotations: A few textual corrections and "Nota" cypher.
Provenance
Contemporary inscription, abraded ("Ex [?] [?]Clarolensis contra [?]"), with shelf mark(?) D (leaf [1]/1r of Manuale); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in memory of Commander Conrad Alexander Bühler from Lathrop C. Harper, March 1979.
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