Accession number
PML 79
Object title
Bulla retractationum.
Published
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1470]
Description
[38] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Binding
18th-century French gilt-tooled green morocco over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with the ticket of Derome le Jeune (dated 1786). Pink silk pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining, with ruling lines added after rubrication (perhaps modern?). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Robert Samuel Turner (1818-1887), gilt booklabel (front pastedown), his sales, Sotheby's, 18 June 1888, lot 185; James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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