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[Announcement and confirmation to the clerics of Passau of Friedrich Mauerkircher's appointment as Bishop of Passau, 25 February 1483].

Accession number
PML 78471
Creator
Mauerkircher, Friedrich, Episcopus Pataviensis.
Object title

[Announcement and confirmation to the clerics of Passau of Friedrich Mauerkircher's appointment as Bishop of Passau, 25 February 1483].

Published

[Nuremberg] : [Fratres Ordinis Eremitarum S. Augustini], [after 25 February 1483]

Description

[1] leaf ; 28 cm (Broadside)

Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund in memory of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title and imprint derived from ISTC.
Incipit: Fridericus dei gratia Electus et Co[n]firmatus Ecclesie Pataviensi Universis et singulis...
Explicit: Datum die vigesimaquinta a me[n]sis februarii Anno [etc.] Octogesimo tercio sub sigillo nostro a tergo impresso.
Printed in the Fratres Ordinis Eremitarum S. Augustini's type 1:79G.
Paper format: Chancery half-sheet.
Woodcut initial F at incipit.
Only 2 copies known: PML and BSB (ISTC, as of 3 Nov. 2015).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20.9 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red capital strokes and underlining. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl, of Achstetten (d. ca. 1960?); his auction, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 84; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Bloomsbury via L.C. Harper in memory of Curt F. Bühler, Nov. 1985.
Classification
Century
Department