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Disquisitio in notas characteristicas librorum a typographiae incunabulo ad an. MD. impressorum : ex antiquissimis codicibus investigatas et rarissimorum scriptorum recensione confirmatas. In jubilaei typographici tertii mnemsynon conscripta / autore M. Sebast. Jacobo Jungendres ...

Accession number
PML 199161.2
Creator
Jungendres, Sebastian Jacob, 1684-1765.
Published
Noribergae : literis Laurentii Bilingii, MCCCXXXX [1740]
Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, 2024.
Notes
Signatures: A-F⁴.
Head- and tail-piece; initial.
Description
48 pages ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Provenance
Andreas Imhoff, presentation inscription from Johannes Reitwisner, dated Dec. 1747, with red wax seal (reverse of title page of Specimen philologicum) and inscription: "Ex dono Reitwisner Norimbergensis" (front endleaf 1 recto); P. Damasus Hammer (d. 1827, monk at Dettelbach), 1793, signature (front pastedown) and stamp of Dettelbach (Bavaria), Franciscans (title page of Specimen philologicum); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Orsi Libri on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, April 2024.
Summary
One of the first studies in print devoted to the analysis of incunabula and their material and visual features that make them difference from books printed after 1500.
Binding
18th-century half vellum with brocade ("Dutch gilt") paper sides.
Classification
Department