Accession number
PML 83290
Published
[Northern Germany (Leipzig or Wittenberg?)] : [no printer], [no date, perhaps 1550-1560]
Notes
Text beings: [A, woodcut initial] A a b c ...
Signatures: A-D⁸ (presumably).
In the 1901 Schultze sale, this work was bound with 3 mid-16th century works: Melanchthon, Catechesis puerilis (Leipzig, 1555), Backmeister, Formae precautionum piarum (Wittenberg, 1560), and Pfeffinger, Consolationum libellus (Leipzig, 1560), suggesting that this Abecedarium is also from northern Germany, mid-16th century.
PML copy incomplete, missing at least leaves A1.8 and D8.
Signatures: A-D⁸ (presumably).
In the 1901 Schultze sale, this work was bound with 3 mid-16th century works: Melanchthon, Catechesis puerilis (Leipzig, 1555), Backmeister, Formae precautionum piarum (Wittenberg, 1560), and Pfeffinger, Consolationum libellus (Leipzig, 1560), suggesting that this Abecedarium is also from northern Germany, mid-16th century.
PML copy incomplete, missing at least leaves A1.8 and D8.
Description
[32] unnumbered leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary manuscript notations throughout in a German hand.
Provenance
Georgi and Francsicus Tekete, inscriptions, 1709, including a few abraded inscriptions; Antonii Pertz, signature; Eduard Schultze (d. 1899), initial stamp, his sale, Helbing (Munich), 7 Feb. 1901, lot 2787 (bound with several other mid-16th century small catechisical works); Walter Schatzki, bookplate (loose); Gillett Griffin (1928-2016), signature; Pierpont Morgan Library.
Binding
Modern paper wrappers.
Classification
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