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[Apocalypsis sancti Johannis]
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- Description
- Block book. Woodcut illustrations and xylographic texts on 48 leaves printed in black ink one side only. Illustrations hand-colored in orange, green, pink, brown and black. Binding: Vol. 1: 19th century gilt-filleted blue morocco, by Lloyd, Wallis, and Lloyd; in half blue morocco case. Vol. 2: portfolio of 19th century half black morocco over marbled paper.
- Date
- [approximately 1468-1470]
- Call number
- 144969
- Provenance
- Anderson sale, Feb. 9-11, 1920. Extensive ms. annotations from a commentary in German on back of leaves from the fourth edition; on back of leaf A1 there is an excerpt from a ms. pharmacopeia in Latin. From the library of Charles Fairfax Murray.
- Purchased from Sotheby's (unsold at auction of 5 June), 1996. Ms. commentary in German on verso of leaf. Bookplate: Ex libris A. Edward Newton, Oak Knoll. Ms. annotations by Newton identifying the leaf on front flyeaf. Purchased at auction, Parke-Bernet, 16-18 April 1941, no. 188. Owned by George McMaster Jones (bookplate laid into folder at time of 1996 sale, but now unaccounted for)
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