Accession number
PML 198699.7
Creator
Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.
Object title
Expositio vel meditatio fratris Hieronymi Sauonarole de Ferraria [sic] ordinis sacri predicato[rum] in psalmum. In te domine speraui. quam in vltimis diebus dum vite sue finem prestolaret[ur] edidit.
Published
[Augsburg], [Johann Froschauer], [1500].
Description
[10] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
Notes
Title from title page, leaf a1r: Expositio vel meditatio fratris Hieronymi Savonarole de Ferraria [sic] ordinis sacri predicato[rum] in psalmum. In te domine speravi, quam in ultimis diebus dum vite sue finem prestolaret[ur] edidit.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Froschauer's types 3:92G, 4:130G, and 5:74G.
Signatures: a⁴ b⁶: 10 leaves, leaf b6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Crucifixion woodcut, leaf a1r.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Froschauer's types 3:92G, 4:130G, and 5:74G.
Signatures: a⁴ b⁶: 10 leaves, leaf b6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Crucifixion woodcut, leaf a1r.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
16th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports (2 double and 2 single) by the Einhorn IIIa bindery (EBDB w003108, southern Germany, active 1478-1514). Manuscript leaf from 12th-century German martyrology, 2-4 August as front pastedown, and plain paper rear pastedown; yellow edges. 1 clasp, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks (same in all parts of Sammelband). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified contemporary shelfmark: II G 5 and contents inscription (fore edge) and inscription: "Caspar" (top edge); Alexandre and Elaine Rosenberg, Alexandre Rosenberg bookplate (designed by Picasso) (front pastedown), Rosenberg sale, Christie's NY, 23 April 2021, lot 85, to: Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
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