Accession number
PML 25130
Object title
Prologus Arminensis in mappam Terrae sanctae.
Published
[Lübeck] : [Lucas Brandis], [about 1478]
Description
[30] leaves ; 41 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Checklist enters this item under Arminensis as author.
Incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit prologus Arminensis in mappam Terresancte, templi domini, ac sancte ciuitatis Hierusalem.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Brandis's types 2:100G, 3:118G, and 4:147G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰]: 30 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.7 x 28.2 cm; leaves [3]/3-8 on shorter paper: 39.5 x 28 cm.
Incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit prologus Arminensis in mappam Terresancte, templi domini, ac sancte ciuitatis Hierusalem.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Brandis's types 2:100G, 3:118G, and 4:147G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰]: 30 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.7 x 28.2 cm; leaves [3]/3-8 on shorter paper: 39.5 x 28 cm.
Binding
Early 2-th-century Swedish half parchment, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (41 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Gustav Hedberg, armorial binder's stamp: Gust. Heberg Hofbok-Bindare Stockholm (front pastedown). Most leaves reinforced at gutter. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Checklist title: Tractatulus totius sacrae historiae elucidativus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified cipher/monogram: "A surmounted by a Lithuanian cross" (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); V. Ebertriss(?), signature (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Dec. 1927.
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