Accession number
PML 20601
Creator
Lichtenberger, Johannes, active 15th century, author.
Object title
Conjunctio Saturni et Martis 1473.
Published
[Lübeck] : [Lucas Brandis], [after 3 December 1474]
Description
[12] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut diagram) ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917 (accessioned 1919).
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from ISTC, based on GW.
Klebs and Fairfax Murray catalogue attribute to Strassburg or Cologne.
Printed in Brandis's type 1*:111G.
PML Checklist dates as before 28 June 1475.
Collation: [1¹²]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut diagram of zodiac, leaf [1]/3v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14.3 cm.
Imprint from ISTC, based on GW.
Klebs and Fairfax Murray catalogue attribute to Strassburg or Cologne.
Printed in Brandis's type 1*:111G.
PML Checklist dates as before 28 June 1475.
Collation: [1¹²]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut diagram of zodiac, leaf [1]/3v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 14.3 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century binding reusing a 15th-century parchment manuscript leaf of Legenda aurea over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; initial on leaf [1]/2r highlighted with gold leaf. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Robert Browning (1849-1912), signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Browning sale, Tregaskis (London), 9 June 1913, lot 683 to Leighton; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 200, purchased by Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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