Accession number
PML 1147
Published
Impressum Venetiis : per Andream de Torresanis de Asula, MDXXVII [1527].
Notes
Imprint from colophon, leaf [a]6r.
Signatures: [a]⁶.
Printed in red and black containing the alphabet, Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Credo and prayers in Glagolitic characters, used in the ancient Roman Catholic liturgies of Istria, Dalmatia, etc.
PML copy missing 2 leaves, [a]3-4.
Signatures: [a]⁶.
Printed in red and black containing the alphabet, Pater Noster, Ave Maria, Credo and prayers in Glagolitic characters, used in the ancient Roman Catholic liturgies of Istria, Dalmatia, etc.
PML copy missing 2 leaves, [a]3-4.
Description
[6] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm. (4to)
Provenance
John Evelyn (1620-1706), inscription, 1645 (verso of added woodcut); Bishop Samuel Butler (1774-1839), his sale, Christie's, part II, 1 June 1840, lot 186; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased at Butler sale, armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and shelf mark: I3 (front fly leaf verso); James Toovey (1814-1893), purchased Gosford's library en bloc in 1878, Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
19th-century green morocco gilt-tooled with Aldine device. Bound in with earlier printed paper wrapper with woodcut portraits of a man and woman on each cover.
Classification
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