Accession number
PML 17518
Object title
Sancta Maria de Loreto.
Published
[Rome] : [Eucharius Silber], [approximately 1500?]
Description
[4] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 15.5 cm (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
The author is Petrus Georgii Tolomei (Teramanus) (Sack, Augsburg).
Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC. IGI assigns to Johann Besicken, after 1500.
Printed in Silber's type 6*:86G.
Collation: [1⁴]: 4 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo. ISTC and GW record as 16mo.
Woodcut of Virgin and Child on half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 15 x 10 cm.
Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC. IGI assigns to Johann Besicken, after 1500.
Printed in Silber's type 6*:86G.
Collation: [1⁴]: 4 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo. ISTC and GW record as 16mo.
Woodcut of Virgin and Child on half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 15 x 10 cm.
Binding
Modern full blue goatskin over paper boards (15.5 x 11 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Leighton (Brewer St. W.). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Translatio miraculosa ecclesiae B.V.M. de Loreto
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from J. Pearson & Co., Jan. 1911.
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