Accession number
PML 1821
Creator
Wimpheling, Jakob, 1450-1528.
Published
Schlettstadt : Lazarus Schürer, May 1520.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Dedicatory epistle by Jacob Spiegel (b. 1483), Secretary to Emperor Maximilian.
Not in the Brit. Museum or Brunet.
Probably the second (?) book printed by Lazar Schürer, the first printer at Schlettstadt (Selestat) in Alsace.
Pragmatic sanction of Charles VII (of Bourges, 1438) compiled by Jacob Wimpheling at the instance of Maximilian I, emperor of Germany.
Signatures: A-C⁴, D⁶ - perfect; title within 4 border-pieces, the bottom one dated 1519; printer's mark on last leaf recto.
Not in the Brit. Museum or Brunet.
Probably the second (?) book printed by Lazar Schürer, the first printer at Schlettstadt (Selestat) in Alsace.
Pragmatic sanction of Charles VII (of Bourges, 1438) compiled by Jacob Wimpheling at the instance of Maximilian I, emperor of Germany.
Signatures: A-C⁴, D⁶ - perfect; title within 4 border-pieces, the bottom one dated 1519; printer's mark on last leaf recto.
Description
18 unnumbered leaves ; (8vo)
Provenance
Dr. George Kloss, Frankfurt am Main, bookplate; Robert Balmanno, F.S.A., manuscript notes and bookplate; Theodore Irwin, purchased from Mrs. Balmanno, 1860; Pierpont Morgan, purhcased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Binding
3/4 green morocco.
Classification
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