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[Kalendarium (1477-1554)].

Accession number
PML 26731
Creator
Pflaum, Jacob.
Object title

[Kalendarium (1477-1554)].

Published

Ulm : Johann Zainer, [about 1477]

Description

[28] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1929.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [3]/8v): Geendet seliglich von Johanne zainer zů Ulm.
Printed in Zainer's type 6:96G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸]: 28 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [3]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcuts depciting eclipses of sun and moon.
A variant issue without printer's name, see ISTC ip00543000, but catalogued together in GW.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 20.1 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [3]/8 (blanks).
Binding
19th-century(?) full morocco blind-tooled in a pastiche of an early style over stiff boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; rebacked. 14th/15th-century Bible manuscript (Italian?) leaves used as pastedowns and plain paper fly leaves.
Variant title
Checklist title: Deutscher Kalender
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, July 1929.
Classification
Century
Department