Accession number
PML 1052
Creator
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.
Published
[Antwerp] : M[ichael] H[illen van Hoochstraten], 1524.
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1906.
Notes
Colophon, leaf n4r: 1524. M H.
Signatures: a-m⁸ n⁴; A-C⁸: 124 leaves; leaf A4 missigned A6.
Additional half-title page (leaf A1r): Ad reverendum in Christo P. & illustrem principem Christophorum episcopum Basiliensem, epistola apologetica Erasmi Roterodami, de interdicto esu carnium, deq[ue] similibus hominum constitutionibus.
Signatures: a-m⁸ n⁴; A-C⁸: 124 leaves; leaf A4 missigned A6.
Additional half-title page (leaf A1r): Ad reverendum in Christo P. & illustrem principem Christophorum episcopum Basiliensem, epistola apologetica Erasmi Roterodami, de interdicto esu carnium, deq[ue] similibus hominum constitutionibus.
Description
[124] leaves ; 15.5 cm (8vo)
Provenance
John Bradford (1510?-1555), the Manchester martyr, signature and motto: "Domine pascit me, non destituar. psal. 23" (leaf a1r), and manuscript marginalia (sigs. e-f) and fore-edge title; Thomas David Gibson-Carmichael, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 23 March 1903, lot 735, to Massey for £4.5; Pierpont Morgan (1847-1913), purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1906.
Binding
16th-century (English or Belgian?) blind-tooled calf over paper boards.
Classification
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