Accession number
PML 23622
Creator
Tucher, Hans.
Object title
Ein underrichtung ... wie man sich halten sol der zů dem heyligen grab über mer faren und die heiligen stet aldo sůchen wil.
Published
Zu Strassburg : Gedruckt unnd volendet durch Heinrichen Kloblitzer, Anno d[omi]ni Tusent vierhundert im lxxxiiii jar [1484].
Description
[58] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Notes
Title from leaf a1r.
Colophon (leaf h7v): "Gedruckt unnd volendet durch Heinrichen kloblitzer zu Strassburg Anno d[omi]ni Tusent vierhundert im lxxxiiii jar."
Printed in Knoblochtzer's types 3:96G and 4:120G.
Collation: a⁸ b⁶ c⁸ d⁶ e⁸ f⁶ g-h⁸: 58 leaves, leaf h8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut author portrait on a1v copied from Buch des edlen Ritters und Landfahrers Marco Polo (Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1477), ISTC ip00901000; see also Schreiber V, 5385.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.8 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: h8 (blank).
Colophon (leaf h7v): "Gedruckt unnd volendet durch Heinrichen kloblitzer zu Strassburg Anno d[omi]ni Tusent vierhundert im lxxxiiii jar."
Printed in Knoblochtzer's types 3:96G and 4:120G.
Collation: a⁸ b⁶ c⁸ d⁶ e⁸ f⁶ g-h⁸: 58 leaves, leaf h8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut author portrait on a1v copied from Buch des edlen Ritters und Landfahrers Marco Polo (Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, 1477), ISTC ip00901000; see also Schreiber V, 5385.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.8 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: h8 (blank).
Binding
Modern full green goatskin over paper boards (28.4 x 20.5 cm). Plain paper pastedowns and flyleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges. Gilt-tooled title on spine.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Woodcut on leaf a1v and initial on a2r hand-colored. Annotations: Note added regarding Hanns Tucher, "und die zeit einer des kleinern ratz d[er] stat N." (leaf a2r).
Provenance
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bibliographic note (first fly leave verso); Kloss sold part of his collection in 1825 to the London booksellers John Thomas Payne and Robert Foss; John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf mark C 113 (leaf a1r) and manuscript notes on Hanns Tucher (third fly leaf recto and leaf a1v); Inglis sale, Sotheby's, 9 June 1826, lot 1591, to Rodd (Thomas Rodd, bookseller?) for £3.0.0; E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., cat. VIII, [1926], lot 94; Pierpont Morgan Library, booklabel (front pastedown), purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., May 1926.
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