Accession number
PML 16786
Creator
Wolfram, von Eschenbach, active 12th century.
Object title
Parsival.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], 1477.
Description
[160] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes
Printed in Mentelin's type 7:107G, with some majuscules filed down to 100.
Dated on leaf [16]/9v: M.CCCC.LXXVII.
Collation: [1-16¹⁰]: 160 leaves, leaf [16]/10 blank.
In Middle High German.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 21.5 cm.
PML copy with some staining due to washed inscriptions.
Dated on leaf [16]/9v: M.CCCC.LXXVII.
Collation: [1-16¹⁰]: 160 leaves, leaf [16]/10 blank.
In Middle High German.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.3 x 21.5 cm.
PML copy with some staining due to washed inscriptions.
Binding
Modern gilt-tooled full black goatskin, in a pastiche of a grolieresque style, by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Illuminated initials, red capital strokes, Roman numeral foliation with decorative bracket in bottom center margin of rectos. Minor initials have foilate flourishing in a very loose/sketchy style; incipit initial is only major initial realized. Illuminated initial "I" in red, light and dark blue on a grey ground with a scrolling vine ornament in gold (leaf [1]/1r) with two coats-of-arms: (left) quartered, gold with a black lion and red label of four points in one and four, gold with red horizontal zigzag in two and three; (right) gold with seven red saltires. Annotations: Some marginal annotations, washed and illegible.
Provenance
Coat-of-arms, unidentified (leaf [1]/1r); Karl W. Hiersemann, Leipzig; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Hiersemann, 1910.
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