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Peregrinationes totius terrae sanctae.

Accession number
PML 56345
Object title

Peregrinationes totius terrae sanctae.

Published

Venetiis : [no printer], [approximately 1480]

Description

[28] leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)

Credit line
Gift of the Fellows, 1966.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a1r: [I]nfrascripte sunt peregrinationes totius terre sancte que a modernis eregrinis visitant.
Imprint from colophon, leaf g4v: Finiunt Indulge[n]tie: [et] pegrinationes terre sa[n]cte hierusalem Venetiis mpresse [sic].
Printed in unidentified type 80G (same as de Tortis 9:79G or Novimagio 12:80G?).
PML Checklist note suggests redating as [1488-89] since type similar to de Tortis or Novimagio, but still predating May 1491 Sessa edition (ISTC ip00262700).
Signatures: a-g⁴: 28 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Printed in black and red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14.4 x 9.8 cm.
Binding
19th-century English full calf over paper boards (15 x 10 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Italian rubrication, alternating red and blue (faded to green) initials with sevral red crosses added throughout the margins. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. as a gift of the Fellows, June 1966.
Classification
Century
Department