Accession number
PML 66016
Creator
Wimpheling, Jakob, 1450-1528.
Object title
agatharchia : id est bonus principatus vel Epithoma condicionum boni principis Ia. Vuimpfelin. Sletstaten[sis]. Sempiterna salus domui Bauarice.
Published
[Strasbourg] : Impressum a Martino Schotto cive Argentinensis, xi. kalendas Decembres. Anno .M.cccc.lxxxxviij [21 November 1498].
Description
[12] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Gift of Mr. Arthur M. Rosenbloom, 1975.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon leaf b5v: Impressum a Martino Schotto ciue Argen[tinensis]. xi. k[a]l[endas] Decembres. Anno .M.cccc.lxxxxviij. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Schott's types 4:84R and 5:210G.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves, leaf b6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut of Bavarian armorial on half-title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: b6 (blank).
Imprint from colophon leaf b5v: Impressum a Martino Schotto ciue Argen[tinensis]. xi. k[a]l[endas] Decembres. Anno .M.cccc.lxxxxviij. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Schott's types 4:84R and 5:210G.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves, leaf b6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut of Bavarian armorial on half-title page.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: b6 (blank).
Binding
Early 20th-century, gold-tooled full green goatskin over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports, by Gozzi of Modena. Green silk pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant title
Epitoma conditionum boni principis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E. Offenbacher as the gift of Mr. Arthur M. Rosenbloom, Jan. 1975.
Classification
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