Dat boeck vanden leuen ons liefs heren Ihesu Cristi anderweruen gheprint.

Accession number: 
PML 126007
Author: 
Ludolf, von Sachsen, approximately 1300-1377 or 1378.
Published: 
Toe Zwoll : Peter Os van Breda, MCCCC cxv dentwintichsten dach in nouembri [20 November 1495].
Description: 
[10], I-CCCXLVII (mistake for CCCXLV), [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 26 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf N5r: Tot loue gods ende tot heyl ende salichheyt alre kersten menschen soe is hier voleynt dat eerwaerdige boeck va[n]den leuen woerden passie verrisenisse en[de] gloriose opuaert ons heeren ihesu cristi met additien van scoonen moralen en[de] gheesteliken leeringhen en[de] deuoten meditacien en[de] ghebeden int eynde der capittelen. Toe zwoll gheprent by mij Peter os van Breda mit die selue litter ende figuren daer sij Tantwerpe[n] eerst mede gheprent sijn geweest [et]c. Gheeynt Int iaer ons heeren MCCCC cxv. dentwintichsten dach in nouembri. Deo gracias. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Van Os's types 8:100G and type for foliation.
Signatures: [1⁴ 2⁶]; a-f⁶ g⁴ h-p⁶ q⁴ r-v⁶ x⁴ y-z⁶ [et]⁴ [us]⁶; A-C⁶ D⁴ E-G⁶ ²G⁶ H⁶ I⁴ K-Q⁶ R⁴ S-Y⁶ ²A-²B⁶ ²C⁴ ²D-²F⁶ ³G⁴ ²H-²N⁶: 356 leaves, leaf ²N6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.3 x 18.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: N6 (blank).

Binding: 
19th-century (Netherlandish or German?) dark-brown blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards (26 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges.
Variant Title: 

Boeck vanden leven Jhesu Christi

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Netherlandish rubrication, red initials, wedge- and C-shaped paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Woodcuts colored by hand. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. A few folio numbers added to register.

Provenance: 
Dutch inscription recording two births in 1600 and 1602: "Marritgen(?) ys geboren anno sestien hondert den 26 februarius. Altgen(?) ys geboren anno sestien hondert 2 dan 18 october" (leaf ²N5v); E. Clark Stillman (1907-1995), shelf mark: SP62 (rear endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of E. Clark Stillman, 1995.
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