Accession number
PML 29413
Creator
Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.
Object title
Liber de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis.
Published
Basileae : [Johann Amerbach], [after 28 August] Anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo quarto [1494]
Description
[6], 140, [2] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1933.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Colophon, leaf u6v: Explicitus est liber de Scriptoribus ecclesiasticis disertissimi patris domini Ioha[n]nis de Tritthe[i]m abbatis Spanheme[n]sis: Basileae: Anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo quarto.
The printer is named in the dedicatory letter, which is dated 5 Calends September [28 August] 1494, leaf A1v.
Printed in Amerbach's types: 8:115R, 14:285G, and 17:87R.
Signatures: A6; a-d⁸/⁶ e⁸ f-t⁸/⁶ u⁸: 148 leaves, leaf u8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 51 lines. Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
Edited by Johann (Heynlin) de Lapide.
With letter addressed to Albert Morderer praising Trithemius by Sebastian Brant, leaves u7r-v.
Includes index.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 21.2 cm.
Colophon, leaf u6v: Explicitus est liber de Scriptoribus ecclesiasticis disertissimi patris domini Ioha[n]nis de Tritthe[i]m abbatis Spanheme[n]sis: Basileae: Anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimo quarto.
The printer is named in the dedicatory letter, which is dated 5 Calends September [28 August] 1494, leaf A1v.
Printed in Amerbach's types: 8:115R, 14:285G, and 17:87R.
Signatures: A6; a-d⁸/⁶ e⁸ f-t⁸/⁶ u⁸: 148 leaves, leaf u8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 51 lines. Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
Edited by Johann (Heynlin) de Lapide.
With letter addressed to Albert Morderer praising Trithemius by Sebastian Brant, leaves u7r-v.
Includes index.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 21.2 cm.
Binding
Modern half calf, with paper sides, over paper boards (30.5 x 22.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns, with original(?) vellum fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary southern German rubrication, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks, red capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, March 1933.
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