Accession number
PML 74
Published
Argentine : per Joh[ann]em Wehinger, Anno d[omi]ni M.D.iii [1503].
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Notes
Imprint from colophon (leaf 243a): Impressum Argentine per Joh'em Wehinger ... Anno d[omi]ni M.D.iii (in red).
Collation: [20 leaves]; a-z A-F⁸: 252 leaves. 74 woodcuts, including 3 full page cuts, on a1v, d4v, h3v (the cut on verso of d4 is not recorded in the description of the Fairfax Murray copy), 2 half-page cuts of sun and moon, 69 cuts of saints.
Printed in black and red, spaces for capitals filled. Full page printer's mark in red on leaf GC8a.
PML copy printed on vellum.
Collation: [20 leaves]; a-z A-F⁸: 252 leaves. 74 woodcuts, including 3 full page cuts, on a1v, d4v, h3v (the cut on verso of d4 is not recorded in the description of the Fairfax Murray copy), 2 half-page cuts of sun and moon, 69 cuts of saints.
Printed in black and red, spaces for capitals filled. Full page printer's mark in red on leaf GC8a.
PML copy printed on vellum.
Description
252 leaves (25 lines) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 12.5 cm.
Inscriptions/Markings
Illuminated frontispiece added before leaf a1r, depicting a canon kneeling before St. Luke, dated 1516, probably produced in Germany but in imitation of Flemish work. Illuminated initial on a2v with Augsburg/Nuremberg foliate border. All woodcuts hand-colored.
Provenance
Ernst Baer (or Bär), of Durlach (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), 10 Aug. 1823, inscription (front fly leaf); William Maskell, signature (front fly leaf); his sales, 30 Aug. 1848, 19 May 1854 and 26 Feb. 1891; Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, 2069, to Quaritch for £46; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Quaritch, 1900.
Binding
Black morocco with clasps, in half black morocco case.
Classification
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