Accession number:
PML 199362
Published:
[Strasbourg] : [Martin Flach], [circa 1490]
Description:
200 unnumbered leaves ; 30 cm (fol)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial. NNPM
Notes:
Imprint details from ISTC; Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Inkunabelkatalog dates about 1487-90. Dated before 26 Oct. 1500 in Goff.
Gothic type, 51 lines and headline, double column.
Signatures: a⁴ b-d⁸ e⁶ f-i⁶̇̇̇ ⁸ k-l⁶ m⁸ n-o⁶ p-q⁸ r-s⁶ t⁸ v-z⁸ ⁶ A-F⁸ ⁶: 199 leaves (of 200; without final blank).
Capital spaces, with printed guide-letters.
"Paratus co[n]tinens sermones de sctis per anni circulu[m] finit feliciter."--final line of text.
Binding:
Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin (294 x 210 mm), probably by the Weissenau Premonstratensian bindery (EBDB w000056; Kyriss Shop 35), active in Ravensburg 1478-1514, triple fillets around sides, frame containing repeated rosette, Agnus Dei tool at each intersecting corner, inner border with a roll of scrolling foliage, in centre 4 triangular compartments formed by intersecting triple fillets, each containing Agnus Dei stamp, title in ink on upper cover, 2 brass catches stamped with "mia" (Maria), plain edges, longitudinal title on head and fore-edge. NNPM
Inscriptions/Markings:
Lombard initials supplied in red, paragraph marks, capital strokes, underlinings in red. NNPM
Provenance:
Hilprand Brandenburg (d. 1514), his hand-coloured woodcut bookplate, contemporary Buxheim inscription recording his donation ("Liber Cartusiensium in Buchhaim prope Memmingen proveniens a confratre nostro domino Hilprando Brandenburg de Bibraco, donato sacerdotc. Oretur pro eo et pro quibus desideravit"); Buxheim, Charterhouse, contents note, donation inscription, armorial library stamp on lower margin of a2, shelf mark M.389. on spine label; Graf von Ostein; Graf von Waldbott-Bassenheim, sale, Carl Forster, Munich, 1883; Maggs Bros, Catalogues 533 (1930, item 107) and 656 (1938, item 320); Estelle Doheny, booklabel, sale, Christies New York, 14 December 2001, lot 50. acquisition: Purchased in 2002 from H.P. Kraus; purchased by: T. Kimball Brooker, his sale: Sotheby's (London), Bibliotheca Brookeriana V, 10 Dec. 2024, lot 1074. NNPM
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