Accession number
PML 20681
Object title
Spiegel menschlicher behaltnuss.
Uniform title
Speculum humanae salvationis. German.
Published
Zu Basel : getrucket durch Bernhart Richel, M.CCCC.LXXVI uf Sant Gilgen obent [31 August 1476].
Description
[235] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 33 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, in red, leaf [25]/10v: Getrvcket dvrch Bernhart Richel zu Basel do man zalt von Christvs gebvrt .M.CCCC.LXXVI. ve [sic] Sant Gilgen obent. [printer's mark]
Printed in Richel's types 3:120G and 4:112R (colophon only).
Collation: [1⁴; 2-8¹⁰ 9⁶ 10-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰(7+1: ewigen spise) 14-18¹⁰ 19-20⁶ 21⁸(7+1: sprichet her salomon) 22-24¹⁰ 25¹⁰(8+1: zu dir kem); 26²(2+1: register)]: 235 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
278 woodcuts.
2 columns, 50 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 24.8 cm.
PML copy missing 5 leaves: [1]/1 (blank), [1]/4, and quire [26].
Imprint from colophon, in red, leaf [25]/10v: Getrvcket dvrch Bernhart Richel zu Basel do man zalt von Christvs gebvrt .M.CCCC.LXXVI. ve [sic] Sant Gilgen obent. [printer's mark]
Printed in Richel's types 3:120G and 4:112R (colophon only).
Collation: [1⁴; 2-8¹⁰ 9⁶ 10-12¹⁰ 13¹⁰(7+1: ewigen spise) 14-18¹⁰ 19-20⁶ 21⁸(7+1: sprichet her salomon) 22-24¹⁰ 25¹⁰(8+1: zu dir kem); 26²(2+1: register)]: 235 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
278 woodcuts.
2 columns, 50 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 24.8 cm.
PML copy missing 5 leaves: [1]/1 (blank), [1]/4, and quire [26].
Binding
Contemporary(?) German blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (34.5 x 26 cm.), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 415, purchased by Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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