Kalender maister Iohannes Kunigsperger.

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Accession number:

PML 167

Author:

Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.

Published:

Zů Augspurg : von maister Erhart Ratdolt, .M.cccc. und inn dem .lxxxxvj jare [1496].

Description:

[28] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts), charts ; 22 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902. NNPM

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf c8v: Hie endet sich idser kalender säligklich. Der getruckt ist worden von maister Erhart Ratdolt zů Augspurg. Als man zalt nach Cristi geburt .M.cccc. und inn dem .lxxxxvj jare.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G, 7:92G, and 12:180G.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-c⁸ [d²]: 28 leaves. Quire [d] made up of 2 half-sheets glued together to support attached metal armatures and volvelles.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
Printed in black and red.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 15 cm. NNPM
Morgan copy missing metal armatures from Instrument leaves (quire [d]) and internal discs from volvelle (leaf [d]1v) replaced in facsimile. NNPM

Binding:

15th/early 16th-century blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (22.5 x 16 cm), sewn on 3 supports by the Regensburg Knoten III bindery (EBDB w000020/Kyriss 153, active about 1477-1518); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Manuscript waste as front endleaf and quire guards. 2 clasps, missing. Additional blank paper bound at end and with 1 half-sheet around quire [d] with same watermark as printed text, i.e. bull's head with a cross surmount with a snake wrapped around the shaft (similar to Briquet 15375). NNPM

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: A few 16th-century notations on instruments (leaves [d]1r and preceding, inserted blank).

Provenance:

Regensburg (Bavaria), Jesuits, inscription: "Collegij societatis Jesu Ratibonae 1587" (leaf a1r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in August 1896 by: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: price code: o/-/- +___, erased (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902. NNPM

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books