Incipit leiber alexandri magni regis macedonie de prelijs.
Accession number:
PML 26730
Published:
[The Netherlands (Utrecht?)] : [Printer of Alexander Magnus (GW 875) (Gerardus de Leempt?)], [between 1475 and 1479]
Description:
[48] leaves ; 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1929.
Notes:
Adapted by Leo Archipresbyter.
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC. HPT I 50 suggests that the printer was Leempt, perhaps at Utrecht, Nijmegen or even Cologne, between 1475 and 1479.
Printed in Printer of Alexander Magnus (GW 875) type 1:117G.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸]: 48 leaves, leaf [1]/1 and [5]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [5]/8 (blanks).
Binding:
18th-century German(?) half parchment, with sprinkled paper sides, over paper boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title:
Historia Alexandri Magni
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary (Netherlandish/German) rubrication, red initials, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified shelfmark: X 396 (front pastedown); unidentified German provenance, bibliographic notes (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., July 1929.
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