Pflantzbüchlin : Von mancherley artiger Pfropffung vnd Beltzung der Bäum / Johann Domitzer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Domitzer, Johann.

Contributor:

Gülfferich, Hermann, -1554, printer.

Edgar Fahs Smith Memorial Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

German

Subjects (All):

Arboriculture--Early works to 1800.

Arboriculture.

Gardening--Early works to 1800.

Gardening.

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Wallerius, Johann (former owner) (inscription) (Smith copy)

Froitzheim, Johann (inscription) (Smith copy)

Physical Description:

28 leaves ; 18 cm (8vo)

Fingerprint:

s-da onk. o-n, Vnvo (3) 1554 (R)

Place of Publication:

Gedruckt zu Franckfurdt am Mayn : Durch Herman Gülfferichen, MDLIIII [1554]

Notes:

Place of printing and printer's name from colophon on leaf D4r.

Title in red and black, vignette, tail-piece (printer's mark).

Woodcut title vignette and printer's device.

Local Notes:

Smith copy bound with: Ryff, Walther Hermann. ConfectBůch, vnd HaussApoteck. Zu Franckfort : Bei Christian Egenolff, MDLIIII [1554].

Smith copy has early ms. inscription (verse from Genesis 2 in German) in brown ink at foot of title leaf; early ms. marginal note in brown ink on leaf D4r.

Smith copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2015 from Jeffrey D. Mancevice, Inc.

Smith copy has early ms. inscription ("Wallerius") in brown ink on leaf D4v; early ms. pen tests and inscriptions ("Waller" and "Wallerius [...]") on recto of first blank leaf at end of volume; early ms. ownership inscription ("Dieses Buch gehoert dem Johann Wallerius zu Dirbach Gemeinde Seuderath[?]") on verso of first blank leaf at end of volume; early ms. inscription ("Johan W[...]") on verso of back free endpaper; some ms. inscriptions (in more than one hand?), most illegible but including the name "Johann Froitzheim," on back pastedown.

Smith copy bound in full contemporary blind-tooled calf over indented wooden boards; 2 metal catch-plates; evidence of 2 leather and metal clasps; 4 raised bands on spine; all edges stippled brown; two small portions of early parchment ms. (written in brown ink in a Gothic bookhand, probably from a liturgical text) used as binder's waste.

Smith copy: spine and boards damaged.

Cited in:

VD 16 D 2197

OCLC:

2299958