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Kalendario.

Accession number
PML 314
Creator
Regiomontanus, Joannes, 1436-1476.
Object title

Kalendario.

Published

Venettis : Bernardus pictor de Augusta. Petrus loslein de Langencen. Erhardus ratdolt de Augusta, 1476.

Description

[30] leaves ; 29 x 22 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1903.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): [Q]Uesta opra da ogni parte e un libro doro. / Non su piu preciosa gemma mai / Dil kalendario: ...
Imprint from colophon (leaf [1]/1r): Venetiis. 1476. [In red:] Bernardus pictor de Augusta. Petrus loslein de Langencen. Erhardus ratdolt de Augusta.
Printed in types 1:109R and 11:59G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3¹²]: 30 leaves. Leaves [3]/1.12 is actually two bifolia each printed on one side and glued together by the blanks, continaing diagrams.
Paper format: Royal quarto
Woodcut initials and diagrams.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 21.5 cm
PML copy with leaf [1]/1 silked. Leaves [3]/1.12 split.
Binding
Modern full gilt-tooled brown goatskin over paper boards (29 x 22 cm), (stab?)sewn on 5 supports by Bradstreet's; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant title
Calendario
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required; 1 woodcut initial partially colored by hand. Annotations: Initials in border armorial, illegible (leaf [1]/1r). No notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 30 June 1903.
Classification
Century
Department