Accession number
PML 196030
Published
Viterbergae : per Georgium Rhau, 1540.
Credit line
Purchased on the L.C. Harper D-1 Fund, 2014.
Notes
Signatures: [A]-Z⁴, a-x⁴, y⁵.
Title within ornamented border.
"Apologia confessionis" has special t.p. and pagination.
Colophon: Impressvm Vitebergae per Georgium Rhau. M.D. XL.
Woodcut border signed by Lucas Cranach.
Title within ornamented border.
"Apologia confessionis" has special t.p. and pagination.
Colophon: Impressvm Vitebergae per Georgium Rhau. M.D. XL.
Woodcut border signed by Lucas Cranach.
Description
44, 137 l. 19 cm.
Provenance
Matthaeus Baumgart of Breslau, Pastor at St. Nicolas in Bernburg, inscription (front fly recto) and initials on binding; Christophorus Ludovico, donation inscription by Baumgart (front fly recto) and signature (title page); Daniel Ludolph von Danckelmann (1648-1709), donation bookplate to library of the academy of Friderick I (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from James Cummins, May 2014.
Binding
Sixteenth-century (1544) blind-stamped pigskin over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Top board stamped MB and 1544; medallion roll with date 1544.
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