Accession number:
PML 196136
Published:
[Rome] : [Eucharius Silber], [about 1486-1487]
Description:
1 leaf : illus. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (Broadside)
Credit:
Purchased on the L.C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2015.
Notes:
Title from ISTC, derived from text incipit.
Printed in a later state of Silber's type 1:72G.
A single sheet printed two up, with woodcut images of Christ (ISTC).
Woodcut printed on left derived from that on right: all iconography a mirror image, including reversed INRI inscription, but sun and moon not copied to derivative cut.
Not in Schreiber.
Chancery half-sheet folio (29.4 x 21.1 cm), no watermark.
Binding:
Single sheet, mounted.
Provenance:
H.P. Kraus, catalogue 121, Illustrated Books from the XVth and XVIth Centuries (1968), lot 94, sold to August Laube of Zurich, April 1969; Maggs Bros., London; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs, March 2015.
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