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Das buchlein wirt genant die hymelisch funtgrub gemacht und reguliert nach hielendischer sprache.

Accession number
PML 20620
Creator
Paltz, Johann von, -1511.
Object title

Das buchlein wirt genant die hymelisch funtgrub gemacht und reguliert nach hielendischer sprache.

Published

[Leipzig] : [Martin Landsberg], [about 1495]

Description

[26] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 21 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917 (accessioned 1919).
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC. Landsberg's printer's mark, leaf D5v.
Printed in Landsberg's types 1:88G and 2:156G.
Signatures: A⁸ B-D⁶: 26 leaves, leaf D6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut of Virigin and Child, leaf A1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.6 x 14.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: D6 (blank).
Binding
Modern paper, glazed and cream-colored, over paper boards (21 x 15 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Die himmlische Fundgrube
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 329, purchased by Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
Classification
Century
Department