Accession number
PML 79148
Object title
Interpretationes seu somnia Danielis p[ro]phete revelata ab angelo missus a deo.
Uniform title
Somnia Danielis (Continental version).
Published
[Lyon] : [Guillaume Balsarin], [approximately 1487-1488]
Description
[10] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Balsarin's type 1:77G.
Signatures: [1¹⁰]: 10 leaves, leaves [1]/1 presumably blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 14.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 (blank) and [1]/10.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Balsarin's type 1:77G.
Signatures: [1¹⁰]: 10 leaves, leaves [1]/1 presumably blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 14.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 (blank) and [1]/10.
Binding
19th-century half dark green (formerly blue) morocco, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards. Plain brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant title
Interpretationes seu somnia Danielis prophete revelata ab angelo missus a deo
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified ownership red, double-ogival (mandorla-shaped) stamp (1 cm) with monogram(?) (front endleaf 2 recto -- perhaps Bellamy Gardner?); unidentified round paper labels, torn away (front cover); Mrs. (Kathleen?) Bellamy Gardner, her sale, Sotheby's, 18 July 1962, lot 650; Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 86, purchased at Sotheby's, July 1962; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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