Bod-Inc: P-299
Pius II, Pont. Max.
[Writ addressed to Adolphus, Count of Nassau, sanctioning his election to the see of Mainz with the date 21 Aug. 1461].
Analysis of Content
Printed side Pius II, Pont. Max.: [Writ addressed to] Adolphus, Count of Nassau-Wiesbaden-Idstein, Archbishop of Mainz. Incipit: ‘[P]ius Episcopus . . . Ad apostolice dignitatis apicem . . .’ Dated Tivoli, 21 Aug. 1461. Reproduced in J. Rosenthal, Katalog 92; Einblattdrucke (1931), no. 2 and pl. 1.; see also C. von Heusinger, ‘Die Einblattdrucke Adolfs von Nassau zur Mainzer Stiftsfehde', Gb Jb (1962), 341-52.
Imprint
Imprint: [Mainz: Johann Fust and Peter Schoeffer, not before 21 Aug. 1461]. Broadside.
Collation
References
ISTC: ip00655000
Hain: CR 85;
Goff: Goff P‑655;
BMC: BMC I 21;
Proctor: Pr 73;
Others: de Ricci, Mayence, 72; E 1194; not in Sheppard. Microfiche: Unit 1: Mainz to 1480.
LCN: 14015734
Copies
Copy number: P-299(1)
Binding: Modern cloth folder.
Size: 315 × 410 × 9 mm.
Size of leaf: 300 × 402 mm.
Initial ‘P' supplied in brown ink. On the verso a bibliographical note in a seventeenth-century hand in black ink.
Provenance: Johannes Stube (fifteenth century); inscription in the lower margin: ‘Cop. collacionata per me Jo. Stube not.'; see von Heusinger 347-50. Jacques Rosenthal (1854-1937). Albert Ehrman (1890-1969); purchased from Jacques Rosenthal in 1947, for £275. Presented in 1978 by John Ehrman.
SHELFMARK: Broxb. 95.1.
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