Accession number
PML 28070.2
Creator
Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.
Object title
De laudibus sanctissime matris Anne tractatus perqua[m] vtilis / domini Ioannis Tritemij abbatis spanhemensis ordinis diui patris benedicti.
Published
Impressum in nobili ciuitate Maguntina : p[er] Petru[m] Friedbergensem, Mccccxciiij. .xij. kalendas Augusti [21 July 1494].
Description
[32] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1931.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1, printed in red.
Imprint from colophon, leaf e6r: Impressum in nobili ciuitate Maguntina p[er] Petru[m] Friedbergensem. Anno virginei partus. Mccccxciiij. .xij. kalendas Augusti.
Prefatory letter, leaf a2r, dated 21 July 1494.
Printed in Peter von Friedberg's types 1:81G and 3:149G.
Signatures: a-d⁶ e⁸: 32 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.7 cm.
PML copy on vellum.
Imprint from colophon, leaf e6r: Impressum in nobili ciuitate Maguntina p[er] Petru[m] Friedbergensem. Anno virginei partus. Mccccxciiij. .xij. kalendas Augusti.
Prefatory letter, leaf a2r, dated 21 July 1494.
Printed in Peter von Friedberg's types 1:81G and 3:149G.
Signatures: a-d⁶ e⁸: 32 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.7 cm.
PML copy on vellum.
Binding
Contemporary German calf, blind-tooled with rosette and leafwork tools, over wooden boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports, some stamps similar to those from the "Wappen-Meister I" bindery in Limburg (EBDB w002106); rebacked and repaired by Duprez Lahey. Modern paper pastedowns and endleaves, with original manuscript waste endleaves (front and rear endleaves from different manuscripts). 2 clasps.
Variant title
Checklist title: De laudibus Sanctae Annae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes (same style in works 1-3, different style in 4-5). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified signature: Albertij No[???]ij (front manuscript waste, leaf 2r); unidentified signature: Ex libris D[omi]ni [abraded] (De laudibus Carmelitarum, leaf A1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Wirtheim, Jan. 1931.
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