Accession number
PML 22037
Object title
Vocabularius rerum.
Published
Augsburg : Johann Keller, 1478.
Description
[2], i-Cxxiiii leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1923.
Notes
Title from colophon.
Colophon (leaf [17]/6v): Finit vocabularius rerum. Ex officina Joh[ann]is keller in Augusta. Anno d[omi]ni M.CCCC.Lxxviii.
Printed in Keller's type 1:123G.
Collation: [1²; 2-9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11⁶ 12-15⁸ 16-17⁶]: 126 leaves.
Chancery folio (27.2 x 18.8 cm)
Text begins, F.1a: Registrū vocabularij sequentis.
Erroneously identified by Hain as the Vocabularius rerum of Wenceslaus Brack (cf BMC III 858).
Colophon (leaf [17]/6v): Finit vocabularius rerum. Ex officina Joh[ann]is keller in Augusta. Anno d[omi]ni M.CCCC.Lxxviii.
Printed in Keller's type 1:123G.
Collation: [1²; 2-9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11⁶ 12-15⁸ 16-17⁶]: 126 leaves.
Chancery folio (27.2 x 18.8 cm)
Text begins, F.1a: Registrū vocabularij sequentis.
Erroneously identified by Hain as the Vocabularius rerum of Wenceslaus Brack (cf BMC III 858).
Binding
19th-century blind-stamped hard-grained brown morocco with gilt-stamped turn-ins over paper boards (28.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt edges. 15th-century manuscript waste used as quire guards.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombard, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown) and notes (front fly leaf verso); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1956, to Quaritch; Pierpont Morgan Library, booklabel (front pastedown), purchased from Quaritch, 1923.
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