Accession number
PML 107
Object title
Historia septem sapientum Rome.
Uniform title
Seven sages of Rome.
Published
[Cologne] : Per me Iohannem Koelhof de Lubeck, Colonie ciuem impressus, M cccc xc [1490].
Description
[50] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h8r: Finit liber Historia sapte[m] Sapientum Rome inscriptus. Anno salutis M cccc xc. Per me Ioh[ann]e[m] Koelhof de Lubeck Colonie ciue[m] impressus. [Printer's mark, leaf h8v.]
Printed in Koelhoff's types 15:175G, 16:80G, and 18:290G.
Signatures: a-g⁶ h⁸: 50 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
23 woodcuts, with repeitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.3 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf h8r: Finit liber Historia sapte[m] Sapientum Rome inscriptus. Anno salutis M cccc xc. Per me Ioh[ann]e[m] Koelhof de Lubeck Colonie ciue[m] impressus. [Printer's mark, leaf h8v.]
Printed in Koelhoff's types 15:175G, 16:80G, and 18:290G.
Signatures: a-g⁶ h⁸: 50 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
23 woodcuts, with repeitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.3 cm.
Binding
19th-century half calf, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Historia septem sapientium Romae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
I.V. Mühlenkamp (Mullenkamp?), signature (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 price code: wm/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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