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Die kunst Chiromantia.

Accession number
PML 10
Creator
Hartlieb, Johann, active 1450.
Object title

Die kunst Chiromantia.

Published

Augspurg : Iorg Schapf, [ca. 1475]

Description

[26] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
1st xylographic edition, state 2.
PML copy is 16 leaves only (leaves 4-7, 9, 11-18, 20, 22-23), irregularly bound (leaves 17, 22, 23, 20, 4, 12, 15,7, 5, 11, 16, 6, 14, 18, 9, 13).
Watermark: None.
Binding
Modern conservation boards, in blue morocco case, by Deborah Evetts.
Variant title
Kunst Ciromantia
Provenance
[perhaps copy formerly owned by Georg Wolfgang Panzer (1729-1805) and "in Germany in 1820," see notes in Bennett catalogue;] George John Warren Vernon (1803-1866), purchased from G. Gancia of Brighton, 1848, sold by his descendants to Ellis & Elvey; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased from Ellis & Elvey, 1897, armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 272, 30/9/97 (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department