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Hystoria de sancta Appolonia vnacum legenda eius.

Accession number
PML 58888
Published
Landsshut : Per Ioannem Weyssenburger, 1520.
Credit line
Purchased on the Trust Fund of Lathrop Colgate Harper, Litt. D., 1968.
Notes
A collection of liturgical prayers for the major hours.
Title page illustrated with a woodcut of Saint Apollonia standing full-length and holding a pair of pliers gripping a tooth.
Text printed in red and black; the final leaf is blank.
Signatures: A-B⁴.
"Impressum Landsshut anno 1520. per Ioannem Weyssenburger."--Colophon.
Description
[24] pages : illustration (woodcut) ; 16 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Sotheby's, 17 June 1968, via Brelauer to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Trust Fund of Lathrop Colgate Harper, Litt. D., 1968.
Binding
1/4 vellum over boards.
Classification
Department