Accession number
PML 156
Creator
Thuróczy, János, approximately 1435-
Object title
Chronica Hungarorum.
Published
Auguste : Impressa Erhardi Ratdolt ... impensis siquidem Theobaldi Feger, millesimo quadringentesimo octogesimooctavo tertio nonas Iunij [3 June 1488].
Description
[174] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 24 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf y9v: Serenissimoru[m] hungarie regu[m] chronica bene revisa ac fideli studio emendata finit feliciter. Impressa Erhardi Ratdolt viri solertissimi eximia industria et mira imprimendi arte: qua nuper Venetijs nu[n]c Auguste excellet nominatissimus. Impensis siquidem Theobaldi Feger concivis Budensis Anno salutifere incarnatio[n]is millesimo q[ua]dringentesimo octogesimooctavo tertio nonas Iunij. [Publisher's mark].
Printed in Ratdolt's type 7:92G.
Sigantures: [1²]; a-g⁸ h⁶ i¹⁰ k-o⁸ p⁶ q-t⁸ v⁴; x⁸ y¹⁰: 174 leaves, leaves v3-4, and y10 blank. (Perhaps 2nd issue is only 172 leaves, with v².)
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts. Woodcut on leaf [1]/2r has typographic title "Hystoria sancti ladislai." within woodcut, crowns cut away from two female figures.
The preface is printed in gold in two vellum copies in Budapest. For variants see Sajó-Soltész and BMC. Woodcuts.
Morgan copy is 2nd issue, with leaf v2r, line 13: "...expugnauit. Nec aliq[ui]n..." and Chronica ending on leaf v2r.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 24 x 17 cm.
Morgan copy missing 2 leaves: v3-4 (blanks).
Imprint from colophon, leaf y9v: Serenissimoru[m] hungarie regu[m] chronica bene revisa ac fideli studio emendata finit feliciter. Impressa Erhardi Ratdolt viri solertissimi eximia industria et mira imprimendi arte: qua nuper Venetijs nu[n]c Auguste excellet nominatissimus. Impensis siquidem Theobaldi Feger concivis Budensis Anno salutifere incarnatio[n]is millesimo q[ua]dringentesimo octogesimooctavo tertio nonas Iunij. [Publisher's mark].
Printed in Ratdolt's type 7:92G.
Sigantures: [1²]; a-g⁸ h⁶ i¹⁰ k-o⁸ p⁶ q-t⁸ v⁴; x⁸ y¹⁰: 174 leaves, leaves v3-4, and y10 blank. (Perhaps 2nd issue is only 172 leaves, with v².)
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts. Woodcut on leaf [1]/2r has typographic title "Hystoria sancti ladislai." within woodcut, crowns cut away from two female figures.
The preface is printed in gold in two vellum copies in Budapest. For variants see Sajó-Soltész and BMC. Woodcuts.
Morgan copy is 2nd issue, with leaf v2r, line 13: "...expugnauit. Nec aliq[ui]n..." and Chronica ending on leaf v2r.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 24 x 17 cm.
Morgan copy missing 2 leaves: v3-4 (blanks).
Binding
18th-century, Italian(?) laced parchment, with gold-tooled spine, over stiff paper boards (24 x 17.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Minimal early marginal notations, quires x-y.
Provenance
Unidentified early inscriptions, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); Edward Shipperdson, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), through inheritance to: Sir Henry and Lady Ethel Meysey-Thompson, sale: Sotheby's 28 April 1887; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in August 1896 by: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 173, 8/5/96 and price code: wd/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso), with note: "May 4/97 exchanged for my own imperfect copy wanting 1st leaf and all after v2 = 17ff. RB," entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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