Accession number
PML 18699
Creator
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
Object title
Kalendario.
Published
Venice : Bernhard Maler (Pictor), Erhard Ratdolt and Peter Löslein, 1476.
Description
[32] leaves ; 28 x 20.5 cm. (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): AUreus hic liber est: non est preciosior ulla / Ge[m]ma kalendario: quod docet istud opus. ...
Colophon (leaf [1]/1r): 1476. [In red:] Bernardus pictor de Augusta. Petrus loslein de Langencen. Erhardus ratdolt de Augusta.
Printed in types 1:109R and 11:59G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3¹⁴]: 32 leaves. Leaves [3]/1.14 is actually two bifolia each printed on one side and glued together by the blanks, containing diagrams.
Royal quarto (27.6 x 19.8 cm.)
Woodcut initials and diagrams.
Printers' names and initial in red (leaf [1]/1r).
PML copy with brass attachment on Quadratum horarium generale diagram (leaf [3]/14v), but wanting the volvelles on Instrumentum veri motus lunae (leaf [3]/1v).
Colophon (leaf [1]/1r): 1476. [In red:] Bernardus pictor de Augusta. Petrus loslein de Langencen. Erhardus ratdolt de Augusta.
Printed in types 1:109R and 11:59G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3¹⁴]: 32 leaves. Leaves [3]/1.14 is actually two bifolia each printed on one side and glued together by the blanks, containing diagrams.
Royal quarto (27.6 x 19.8 cm.)
Woodcut initials and diagrams.
Printers' names and initial in red (leaf [1]/1r).
PML copy with brass attachment on Quadratum horarium generale diagram (leaf [3]/14v), but wanting the volvelles on Instrumentum veri motus lunae (leaf [3]/1v).
Binding
Modern quarter red goatskin with cloth sides over paper boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Charlotte Ullman, 1967. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red capital strokes, woodcuts and woodcut initials colored by hand, ecclipse diagrams tinted yellow, and decorative scrolls added to tituli. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript additions of popular German saint days added to calendar. Contemporary inscription, faded, illegible under UV (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
Unidentified early German owner (manuscript additions in calendar point to Freising diocese, including Dedicatio Freisingensis ecclesie in red on 2 May); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan./Feb. 1909.
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