Object details
Object number
7.2.24
Creator(s)
Title
Biblia pauperum : reproduced in facsimile from one of the copies in British museum with an historical and bibliographical introduction by J. Ph. Berjeau
Date
1859
Medium
Printed ink on paper
Language
English
Publication Place
London
Binding Description
half bound in leather; marbled board; gilt lettering on spine
Description
38 p., 40 leaves of plates, ill. (Royal Collection Trust rec. #1052997)
Dimensions
39.4 x 29.2 x 2.5 cm (15 1/2 x 11 1/2 x 1 in.)
Signatures, inscriptions, and markings
Inscribed in pencil (inside front cover): Leaf from original block book laid in at plate XI
Inscribed in black ink (inside front cover): C.E. Norton
Inscribed in pencil (on front end paper, top right): msls / glch
Illustrated with facsimiles from a copy of Biblia Pauperum in the British Museum
Enclosed: Original leaf from a block book (ARC.009823)
inscribed in pencil (on back of block book leaf): An original leaf from a block book bought by me from the sale of the library of Mr. W.G. Medlicott of Longmeadow, Mass, / in 1878. / C.E. Norton / See Berjeau's Biblia Pauperum, London, 1859, plate XI / Woodbury's Hist. of wood engraving, New York, 1883, p.34
Enclosed: The Book: Its Printers, Illustrators, and Binders, from Gutenberg to the Present Time by Henri Bouchot (1849-1906) (ARC.007808)
Provenance
Collection of wool merchant William Gibbons Medlicott (1816-1883) around 1861-1878.
Purchased by scholar and critic Charles Eliot Norton (1827–1908) from the Medlicott sale in 1878.
Purchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from Charles Eliot Norton on 4 June 1904.
Commentary
Isabella Stewart Gardner kept meticulous records of many of her acquisitions. In keeping with this legacy, object information is continually being reviewed, updated, and enriched in order to give greater access to the collection.
Bibliography
Isabella Stewart Gardner. A Choice of Books from the Library of Isabella Stewart Gardner, Fenway Court (Boston, 1906), p. 10.
Gallery
Long Gallery
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