Breviary for Regensburg, 1495

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Medium

bound volume with 2 large woodcut illustrations, 438 leaves printed in red and black with red Lombardic capitals

Dimensions

book: 36.9 × 26.7 × 9.6 cm (14 1/2 × 10 1/2 × 3 3/4 in.)

Credit Line

Purchased with Funds from an Anonymous Donor

Catalogue Raisonné

Schreiber Manuel, no. 3621

Accession Number

2013.77.3

Artists / Makers

Michael Wolgemut (artist) German, 1434 - 1519

Johann Pfely (publisher)

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Inscription

in black or red ink on spine: LECTIO[?] / NARIUM / C / VII / 5; on first free endpaper by later hands, upper left in ink: 75-46-5; upper right: 2965; center underlined: Goff 1177B, lower center: Goff B1177 (I) / RATTEY CATALOGUE B20A / VOLLBEHR -NEYLAN COPY; margin note in brown ink lower right: (not deciphered); next to last free endpaper in brown ink upper center: Bcoz[g?]iii klaurpork domino Wollffgang[o?] Bzaiin eytten; center in graphite: 25; on last free endpaper in graphite upper right: 10749; lower left: DUUKG; loose fragments of manuscript inside lower cover (not deciphered)

Provenance

George Klauspeck to Wolfgang Braun Eyssen ("Georgius klauspeck domino Wollfgango Bran eyssen" early 16th century gift inscription); Vollbehr-Neylan (pencil note); Clifford Rattey (bookplate); Lathrop C. Harper, 1975; Arthur and Charlotte Vershbow, Boston; (sale, Christie's New York 10 April 2013, lot 135); purchased 2013 by NGA.

Associated Names

Ursus Books and Prints, Ltd.

Bibliography

1926: Schreiber, Wilhelm Ludwig. Handbuch de Holz- und Metailschnitte des XV Jahrhunderts. 8 vols. Leipzig: Verlag Karl W. Hierseman, 1926-1930, no. 3621.