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Der Psalter zu Deutsch.

Accession number
PML 26106
Object title

Der Psalter zu Deutsch.

Uniform title
Bible. Psalms. German. 1475.
Published

[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Eggestein], [not after 1473]

Description

[99] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to and 8vo)

Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Pritned in Eggestein's type 1:126G.
Dated not after 1473 from an inscription of ownership in a copy in Innsbruck (BSB-Ink; Sack(Freiburg)). BMC, IGI and Goff dated it between 1475 and 1480.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8⁸(+1); 9-10¹⁰]: 99 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto and Royal octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 14.3 cm.
PML copy with tabula (quires [9-10]) bound first.
Binding
Contemporary German/central European blind-stamped (stamps heavily worn) sheepskin over wooden boards (21.5 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports; repaired. Plain (renewed) paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps.
Variant title
Checklist title: Psalterium Germanicum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Rubricator's section/textual notations and Arabic foliation, which is added to tabula (tabula not foliated). German inscriptions, including unidentified provenance: "Das ist mein vett (bett?) puech," 15th century (leaf [8]/8v).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., Dec. 1928.
Classification
Century
Department