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De generatione Christi, sive Defensorium inviolatae castitatis B.V.M. [Latin and German].

Accession number
PML 188
Creator
Franciscus, de Retza, approximately 1343-1427.
Object title

De generatione Christi, sive Defensorium inviolatae castitatis B.V.M. [Latin and German].

Published

[Strasbourg : Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), 1474-79]; [Speyer : Johann and Conrad Hist, about 1483]; [Georgius de Spira, 1476-80]

Description

(4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Checklist: "JPM 188."
GW assigns to Strassburg, Engel & Stalla to Johann and Conrad Hist, and BMC to Georgius de Spira. Woodcuts.
Binding
Modern full black goatskin, by Capé.
Variant title
Defensorium inviolatae castitatis B.V.M.
Inscriptions/Markings
With the effaced stamp of the Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis.
Provenance
Bibliotheca Regia Monacensis; from the Richard Bennett collection; Pierpont Morgan.
Classification
Century
Department