Accession number
PML 22075
Creator
Vegio, Maffeo, 1406 or 1407-1458.
Object title
Vita divi Anthonii ad sanctissimu[m] dominu[m] Eugenium papa[m] quartu[m], per Mapheum vegium laudensem.
Published
[Deventer] : [Theodoricus de Borne], [approximately 1510]
Description
[10] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC. Dated by Nijhoff & Kronenberg.
Campbell, Oates and BMC(Dut) ascribe to Zwolle: Peter van Os. PML Checklist dated to 1498.
Signatures: a⁴ b⁶: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut of St. Anthony, leaves a1r and b6v.
Preserved in ISTC, GW, PML Checklist, etc., but no longer dated as an incunabulum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.4 x 14 cm.
Imprint from ISTC. Dated by Nijhoff & Kronenberg.
Campbell, Oates and BMC(Dut) ascribe to Zwolle: Peter van Os. PML Checklist dated to 1498.
Signatures: a⁴ b⁶: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut of St. Anthony, leaves a1r and b6v.
Preserved in ISTC, GW, PML Checklist, etc., but no longer dated as an incunabulum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.4 x 14 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (21 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Vita divi Antonii
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Heavily annotated throughout, but paper has been heavily washed/bleached and annotations are only barely visible and still illegible under UV.
Provenance
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Tregaskis, Sept. 1923.
Classification
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