Exemplario contra los engaños y peligros del mu[n]do.

Accession number: 
PML 20068
Author: 
Giovanni, da Capua, active 13th century.
Published: 
Burgos : por maestre Fadrique aleman de Basilea, a .xvi. dias del mes de febrero. Año de nuestra salvacion .Mil.cccc.xc.viii [16 February 1498]
Description: 
[1], Fo. II-XCVI leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 27.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1916.
Notes: 

Xylographic title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf p8r: [Biel's device] Acabo se el excellente libro intitulado Exemplario co[n]tra los engaños [y] peligros del mundo. Empre[n]tado en la muy noble [y] leal ciudad de Burgos por maestre Fadrique aleman de Basilea a .xvi. dias del mes de febrero. Año de nuestra salvacion .Mil.cccc.xc.viii.
Printed in Biel's types 8:110G, 14:78G, and 15:140G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-h⁶ i⁸ k-o⁶ p⁸: 96 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
125 woodcuts, with repetitions, and woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 20 cm.
PML copy with leaf a1 torn and repaired; several leaves remargined at top edge.

Binding: 
19th-century gilt-tooled full blue goatskin over paper boards (27.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Durand. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Exemplario contra los engaños y peligros del mundo

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified Spanish inscription, erased, not legible under UV (leaf p8r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, April 1916.
Classification: 
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