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Gloriosorum christi confessor[um] Vldarici & Symperti: necno[n] beatissim[a]e martyris Aphr[a]e, Augustan[a]e sedis patronor[um] q[ua]mfidelissimor[um] histori[a]e : cum horar[um] decis, p[ro]ut n[ost]ro in coenobio percelebri obseruant[ur] canonicar[um] insert[i]o[n]e, cuilibet easdem deuotionis causa p[er]soluere uolenti: habunde satisfacientes ; Tetrastichon discretu ad lectore[m] ...

Accession number
PML 44540
Creator
Bild, Veit, 1481-1529, editor.
Published
In coenobio nostro Augustano sanctoru[m] Vldarici & Aphr[a]e : Silvanus Otmar, Millesimo quingentesimo sextodecimo decimooctavo kalendas Maias [14 April 1516].
Credit line
Gift of Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., 1953.
Notes
Title and section headings printed in red.
5 woodcuts: portraits of the Saints and view of the monastery of Sts. Ulrich and Afra by Leonhard Beck.
Signatures: A⁸ B-C⁴ D⁸ E-G⁴ H⁸ I-N⁴ O⁶ P-R⁴ S⁸
Not in Muther, Panzer or Proctor.
Description
[90] leaves : illustrations (5 woodcuts) ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
Contemporary annotation citing Paul Lang's Chronicon Citizense and the Historia Landgraviis Thuringiae (leaf G3v).
Provenance
Inscription related to printing in monastery of Ulrich & Afra or ownership: "1516 Augustae in coenobio," (leaf a1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., 1953.
Binding
20th-century 3/4 leather (probably by McDonald or Stikeman).
Classification
Department