[Pontus und Sidonia].

Accession number: 
PML 163
Uniform title: 
Ponthus et Sidoine. German.
Published: 
Augsburg : Johann Schönsperger, 13 May 1491.
Description: 
[88] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

47 woodcuts.
Collation: a-m⁶ n-o⁸: 88 leaves, leaf o8 blank.
Colophon (leaf o7v): Gedrucket und volendet ist dises büchlin genannt Pontus durch Hannsen Schönsperger in der keÿserlichen stat Augspurg. Am freÿtag nach dem affertag. Nach cristi unsers liebe herren geburt .M.cccc.und in dem .lxxxxi. jare.
Half-title page (leaf a1r): Das buch und lobliche histori vo[n] dem edelen kiinigs [künigs] sun auβ Galicia genant Pontus. Auch vo[n] der schene[n] Sydonia kiinigin auβ pritania. weche historia gar lustig und gar kurczveylig czu heren ist.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy is only known copy (according to ISTC/GW, as of 24 Sept 2015).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.3 x 19 cm
Printed in Schönsperger's types 1:120G and 4:150G.
Title from ISTC.
Translated by Eleanor of Austria. Leaf a2r: ...Wölche hÿstori die durch leüchtig un[d] hochgeborne fraw, fraw Heleonora geborne küniginne auβ schottenlande erczherczogin zů österreich loblich von franczosiger zungen in teütsch getranβferieret un[d] gemacht hat.

Binding: 
Modern quarter tan goatskin with sides covered in wood veneer paper over wooden boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Historie von Pontus und Sidonia

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
Georg Franz Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 4277; David Laing (1793-1878), purchase inscription from Kloss sale, 1835; [his sales, 16 June 1856, 1 Dec. 1879, 5 April and 20 July 1880, 21 Feb. 1881]; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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