De generatione Christi sive defensorium castitatis beatae virginis Mariae.

Accession number: 
PML 9
Author: 
Franciscus, de Retza, approximately 1343-1427.
Published: 
[Regensburg] : Johannes eysenhüt impressor, Anno ab incarnac[i]o[n]is d[omin]ice M° quadringentesimoseptuagesimo j° [1471]
Description: 
[26] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Attributed to Augsburg in Morgan Bennett catalogue.

Binding: 
Bound by Deborah Evetts, March 1991.
Variant Title: 

Defensiorum castitatis beatae virginis Mariae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Watermark: flyleaf. Balance in circle surmounted by six-pointed star.
Watermark: folio 3. Bull's head with vertical bar and five petaled flower.
Watermark: folio 6. Bunch of grapes.
Watermark: folio 10. Bull's head with vertical bar and five petaled flower. Same as f. 3.
Watermark: folio 21. Bunch of grapes.

Provenance: 
Joannes de Cerretanis, inscription and Italian annotations, 1610; anonymous sale: "Library of a Gentleman," Sotheby's, 27 Nov. 1896, lot 228 to Pickering for £320; Richard Bennett; Pierpont Morgan.
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