Accession number
PML 78470
Creator
Faber von Budweis, Wenzel, -1518.
Object title
Practica deutsch magistri wenceslai von budweisz.
Published
[Leipzig] : [Martin Landsberg], [1493]
Description
[10] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1985.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Landsberg's types 1:88G, 2:156G, and 6:196G.
Signatures: A⁶ B⁴: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut of Venus and Mercury on leaf A1r.
PML copy is 4 leaves only (uncut): a proof of quire B⁴, with a different imposition than Munich copy.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Landsberg's types 1:88G, 2:156G, and 6:196G.
Signatures: A⁶ B⁴: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
1 woodcut of Venus and Mercury on leaf A1r.
PML copy is 4 leaves only (uncut): a proof of quire B⁴, with a different imposition than Munich copy.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Binding
Not bound, in folder.
Variant title
Prognosticon für Leipzig, 1494
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Eduard Schultze (d. 1899), monogram stamp; his sale, Helbing (Munich), 7 Feb. 1901; Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl, of Achstetten (d. ca. 1960?); his auction, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 60; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund in memory of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, Nov. 1985.
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