Accession number
PML 38939
Creator
Ramirez de Villaescusa, Diego.
Object title
Dialogi quattuor super auspicato Hispania[rum] p[ri]ncipis emortuali die Iacobo a villascusa auctore q[uam] celeberrimo novissime impressi foeliciter incipiu[n]tur.
Published
Impressum Hantwerpiae : per me Godfridum Back, Anno ab incarnatione .M.ccc.octavo et nonagesimo Die vero .xii. mensis Julii [12 July 1498]
Description
[40] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1947.
Notes
Title from leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf e8v: Impressum hantwerpiae p[er] me Godfridu[m] back. Anno ab incarnatio[n]e .M.ccc.octavo et nonagesimo Die v[er]o .xii. me[nsis] Julii. FINIS.
Printed in Bac's types 1:99G, 2:180G, and 3:82G.
Signatures: a-e⁸: 40 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
6 woodcuts from 4 blocks.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf e8v: Impressum hantwerpiae p[er] me Godfridu[m] back. Anno ab incarnatio[n]e .M.ccc.octavo et nonagesimo Die v[er]o .xii. me[nsis] Julii. FINIS.
Printed in Bac's types 1:99G, 2:180G, and 3:82G.
Signatures: a-e⁸: 40 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
6 woodcuts from 4 blocks.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14 cm.
Binding
Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (21.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Dialogi quattuor
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized (one initial, leaf a3r). Annotations: One contemporary marginal notation (leaf a3v) and a few text brackets. Manuscript title on fore edge.
Provenance
Ludwig Rosenthal's Antiquariat, cat. 130 (1909), no. 76; Charles William Dyson Perrins (1864-1958), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), his sales, Sotheby's, pt. II, 5 Nov. 1946, lot 516 to Goldschmidt for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt & Co., Jan. 1947.
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