Inscription
by later hands, first free endpaper in graphite upper left: 975 / Kain 3750 / (underlined:) Twu ff. 102 / ft. 72 pendu, vestauré / sans perte / 14380 / 3ff. table [m?] guent. / iire / hsgg / 16fy, [sf?]; in brown ink on title page top center: (not deciphered); on final endpaper upper left in brown ink: 1219 / a +[?]
Marks and Labels
2 stickers on last free endpaper printed, 1 in purple ink: [not deciphered] 1938; the other: [not deciphered] x, NT
Provenance
Abbey of Saint Germain des Pres (bookplate). Henry Anthony Littledale (bookplate). Acquired in 1938 by Maurice Burrus [1882-1959], Alsace (bookplate); (Sims Reed Rare Books, London, sale December 15, 2015); purchased 2016 by NGA.
Exhibition History
- 2018
- Sense of Humor: Caricature, Satire, and the Comical in Prints and Drawings from Leonardo to the Present, National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018 - 2019.
Bibliography
- 1932
- Meder, Joseph. Dürer-Katalog; ein Handbuch über Albrecht Dürers Stiche, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, deren Zustände, Ausgaben und Wasserzeichen. Vienna: Verlag Gilhofer und Ranschburg, 1932. Reprint. New York: Da Capo Press, 1971: 275, no. VII, 1497b.
- 1964
- Goff, Frederick R. Incunabula in American Libraries, a third census of fifteenth-century books recorded in North American collections.New York, 1964: no. B-1090.
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