Accession number
PML 27814
Object title
Maister Elucidarius von den wunderbaren sachen der welt.
Published
Ulm : durch Han[n]sen Zainer, an dem fünfften tag des Hornu[n]gs. Anno domini .M.cccc. und in dem .xciii. Jare [5 February 1493].
Description
[42] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f7v: Gedrucket und säglich vollendet in der loblichen stat Ulm durch Han[n]sen Zainer an dem fünfften tag des Hornu[n]gs. Anno domini .M.cccc. und in dem .xciii. Jare.
Printed in Zainer's types 8:175G and 11**:93G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-e⁶ f⁸: 42 leaves, leaf f8 blank.
The text is derived from the Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis (Verfasserlexikon 2, Bd 5 col 939ff).
6 woodcuts from 5 block (1 repetition).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.8 x 12.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: f8 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf f7v: Gedrucket und säglich vollendet in der loblichen stat Ulm durch Han[n]sen Zainer an dem fünfften tag des Hornu[n]gs. Anno domini .M.cccc. und in dem .xciii. Jare.
Printed in Zainer's types 8:175G and 11**:93G.
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-e⁶ f⁸: 42 leaves, leaf f8 blank.
The text is derived from the Elucidarium of Honorius Augustodunensis (Verfasserlexikon 2, Bd 5 col 939ff).
6 woodcuts from 5 block (1 repetition).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.8 x 12.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: f8 (blank).
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (19.5 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Chorinsky von Ledske, Ignatz Dominik (b. 1729), abraded bookplate in previous binding; previously part of a Sammelband including PML 27814-18 (ChL 486, 536, 538, 495, and 151), disbound after 1930; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from J. Wertheim, Nov. 1930.
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