Accession number
PML 196136
Object title
[Oratio, ego sum alpha et o[mega]].
Published
[Rome] : [Eucharius Silber], [approximately 1486-1487]
Description
1 leaf : illus. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (broadside)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2015.
Notes
Title from ISTC, derived from text incipit.
Printed in a later state of Silber's type 1:72G.
A single sheet printed two up, with woodcut images of Christ (ISTC).
Woodcut printed on left derived from that on right: all iconography a mirror image, including reversed INRI inscription, but sun and moon not copied to derivative cut.
Not in Schreiber.
Paper format: Chancery folio half-sheet.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.4 x 21.1 cm.
Printed in a later state of Silber's type 1:72G.
A single sheet printed two up, with woodcut images of Christ (ISTC).
Woodcut printed on left derived from that on right: all iconography a mirror image, including reversed INRI inscription, but sun and moon not copied to derivative cut.
Not in Schreiber.
Paper format: Chancery folio half-sheet.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.4 x 21.1 cm.
Binding
Single sheet, mounted and matted.
Variant title
Oratio, ego sum alpha et o
Provenance
H.P. Kraus, catalogue 121, Illustrated Books from the XVth and XVIth Centuries (1968), lot 94, sold to August Laube of Zurich, April 1969; Maggs Bros., London; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Maggs Bros. on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, March 2015.
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