Accession number
PML 34408
Creator
Widmann, Johannes, approximately 1460-approximately 1500.
Object title
Behennd und hupsch rechnung uff allen kauffmanschafften.
Published
Gedruckt zů Pfortzheim : von Thoman Anβhelm, 1500.
Description
[1], 2-163, [1] leaves ; 14 cm (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased in 1937.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf [a]1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [x]3v: Gedruckt zů Pfortzheim von Thoman anβhelm Im Jubel Jar als man zalt 1500 Got sey lob.
Printed in Anshelm's type 2: 77G.
Signatures: [a]-v⁸ [x]⁴: 164 leaves, leaf [x]4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Xylographic title, woodcuts and typographic diagrams throughout.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.1 x 9.1 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [x]4 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf [x]3v: Gedruckt zů Pfortzheim von Thoman anβhelm Im Jubel Jar als man zalt 1500 Got sey lob.
Printed in Anshelm's type 2: 77G.
Signatures: [a]-v⁸ [x]⁴: 164 leaves, leaf [x]4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Xylographic title, woodcuts and typographic diagrams throughout.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.1 x 9.1 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [x]4 (blank).
Binding
Early-16th century German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (14 x 10 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Center and corner pieces, 1 corner piece missing from front and rear boards; 1 clasp, missing.
Variant title
Rechnung auf allen Kaufmannschaft
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
A. F. P., unidentified initials, 1574 (front pastedown); Thomas Chribol, inscription, 16th century (front pastedown); abraded ownership inscriptions, 16th/17th century (front pastedown); unidentified (Bundesdenkmalamt?) shelfmark: G, VII, 30 (front pastedown); Austria, Bundesdenkmalamt, stamp (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purhcased from Paul Gottschalk, Dec. 1937.
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