Accession number
PML 22
Creator
Marchesinus, Johannes.
Object title
Mammotrectus super Bibliam.
Published
Mainz : Peter Schoeffer, 10 Nov. 1470.
Description
[129] leaves ; 33 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Printed in Schoeffer's type 3:91G.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸; 6-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9⁴⁽³⁺¹⁾; 10-11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13⁶ 14¹⁰ 15⁴]: 129 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio
GW and BSB-Ink record variant collation: [8⁸⁻¹ 9⁶]; PML copy agrees with Bod-inc and BL (not in BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.4 x 22.3 cm.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸; 6-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9⁴⁽³⁺¹⁾; 10-11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13⁶ 14¹⁰ 15⁴]: 129 leaves.
Paper format: Median folio
GW and BSB-Ink record variant collation: [8⁸⁻¹ 9⁶]; PML copy agrees with Bod-inc and BL (not in BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.4 x 22.3 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century gilt-tooled English red straight grain morocco over paper boards (33 x 23.5 cm), sewn on 5 bands, with the gilt armorial of Michael Wodhull. Gilt-rolled turn-in and yellow paper pastedowns and fly leaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards with green penwork flourishing, red rubrics, running headlines, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; flourished catchwords.
Provenance
Maffeo Pinelli (1736-1785), Pinelli's heirs sold the collection to the London bookseller James Edwards, one of the ships was captured by pirates the books thrown overboard; Pinelli sale, James Edwards, 2 March 1789, lot 5145; Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscription (first paper fly leaf), purchased from Edwards, 7 April 1789, Wodhull left his collection to his sister-in-law Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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