Accession number
PML 127772
Published
[Paris] : Thielman Kerver, [5 or 19 Dec.?] 1519.
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 1996.
Notes
Printed in red and black.
Almanach dated 1519-1538.
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy imperfect: 67 leaves only: A⁸, B8, C1, D1, D6, D8, E3, E4, F4, F5, G6-8, H-L⁸, M1-6, M8, N1-6, N8, and Q2. Several leaves with printed text scraped away (major illustrations leaves preserved?)--previously described as printed without text, as trial proofs, but partially visible text and damage to borders suggests that the printed text was intentionally abraded.
Almanach dated 1519-1538.
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy imperfect: 67 leaves only: A⁸, B8, C1, D1, D6, D8, E3, E4, F4, F5, G6-8, H-L⁸, M1-6, M8, N1-6, N8, and Q2. Several leaves with printed text scraped away (major illustrations leaves preserved?)--previously described as printed without text, as trial proofs, but partially visible text and damage to borders suggests that the printed text was intentionally abraded.
Description
1 v. [67 l.] : illustrations ; 17 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Extensively illuminated in red, blue, and gold (initials, line fillers); the illustrations left uncolored, but the tree in Kerver's unicorn device on title colored green.
Provenance
Giberto Boromeo Arese (1815-1885), inscription: "Giberto Boromeo. Dono di Luigi Brambilla, ott. 1854" (front pastedown); Christie's London, 3 April 1996, lot 115; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, April 1996.
Binding
French, 18th-century sheep(?), gilt-tooled with gilt edges.
Classification
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