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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.
Type
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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)
Restrictions
RESTRICTED. Available with curatorial approval. Requires extended retrieval and delivery time.
Dimensions
38 cm (folio)
Associated people
Murray, Charles Fairfax, (1849-1919,)
Newton, A. Edward (1864-1940,)
Associated organization
Lloyd, Wallis & Lloyd,
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