Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

[Ehespiegel : Das ist Alles was vom heiligen Ehestande nützliches nötiges und tröstliches mag gesagt werden ; in Siebentzig Brautpredigten zusammen verfasset / durch M. Cyriacum Spangenberg im Thal Manszfelt.]

Accession number
PML 152789
Creator
Spangenberg, Cyriacus, 1528-1604
Published
Getruckt zu Strassburg : durch Samuel Emmel, im Jar M.D. LXVII [1567].
Credit line
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes
Signatures: 2° 6s: )(²-)(⁶ *⁶ A-Z⁶ a-z⁶ 2A⁶ 2B²-2B⁵ 2C¹.
Cataloged from imperfect copy: Title leaf: )(¹ ; 2B¹ and 2B⁶ lacking. Title supplied from VD16, impressum from colophon.
Title page (lacking) printed in red and black.
Marginal notes throughout, in two early hands in brown ink and black graphite. .
Woodcut initials throughout.
Description
[9], CCLXXX, [7] leaves : initials (woodcuts) ; 32 x 21 cm
Provenance
Margaretta Barbara Trinck ein? zu?; Gräffen Steinberg, 9 Januari 1757, inscriptions inside upper cover; from the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Contemporary alum tawed pigskin on bevelled wooden boards. Panel stamped and tooled in blind with triple frames, the outer a roll of palmettes, the middle of compartments with religious miscellaneous motifs, surrounding a border of smaller rectangular portraits of Christ, St. Paul, St. John the Baptist, and others. In the center, a narrow rectangular floral panel. Four pairs of metal corner pieces, one pair of center pieces, incorporating bosses, and a pair of clasps, one lacking. The clasps are attached to the lower, and the catches to the upper board. In modern brown cloth slip-case.
Classification
Department