Accession number
PML 33052
Published
In inclyta civitate Spriensi : [Peter Drach], Millesimoquinge[n]tesimosecundo. xviij. idus Septembris [15 August or 6 September 1502].
Notes
Imprint from colophon, leaf nn7v: Peractu[m] in inclyta ciuitate Spirensi Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquinge[n]tesimosecundo. xviij. idus Septembris.
Signatures: [1]⁸; a⁸; a-z [et]⁸ [con]-[rum]⁶; a-c⁶ d⁴;⁶ ., .., ...>⁴; A⁸ B¹⁰; aa-nn⁸ (leaf nn8 blank).
Title, headlines, some initials and rubrics printed in red.
Woodcut of Crucifixion on leaf [i] verso (243v).
PML copy missing 1 leaf: nn8 (blank).
Signatures: [1]⁸; a⁸; a-z [et]⁸ [con]-[rum]⁶; a-c⁶ d⁴;
Title, headlines, some initials and rubrics printed in red.
Woodcut of Crucifixion on leaf [i] verso (243v).
PML copy missing 1 leaf: nn8 (blank).
Description
[16], I-CCIIII, [22, 10], I-XVIII, [104] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 32 cm (fol)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary rubrication, alternating red/blue initials. Inscriptions/notations throughout, including: 2 leaves of manuscript prayers, 17th/18th century (bound in as front endleaves 3 and 4), "S. Humberto," 18th/19th century (front 5 recto), birth inscriptions, date 1569 (title page and leaf nn7v), death (obyt) inscriptions in calendar (mainly July), 16th century, and "Ad introducendum muliere post partum, lege istum psalmum [?] levavi oculos meos [etc.] ...," 16th century (leaf d4v).
Provenance
Unidentified sale lot description, no. 563 (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 1936.
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled brown morocco, with central panel derived from Geoffroy Tory design, by Riviere & Son.
Classification
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