Tractatus et sermones / compilati a reverendissimo domino domi[n]o Petro de Ailliaco.

Accession number:

PML 22601

Author:

Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?

Published:

Strasbourg : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 1490.

Description:

[164] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1925.

Notes:

Title from leaf a1r.
Colophon (leaf C7v): Finiu[n]t tractat[us] [et] s[er]mones petri d[e] aillyaco. Imp[re]ssi arge[n]tine anno d[omi]ni M.ccccxc.
Printed in types 1:160G and 4:80G of the eponymous Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg, now identified as Georg Husner.
Collation: a-f⁸·⁶ g-z, A-B⁶ C⁸: 164 leaves, leaf C8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Author also known as Petrus de Alliaco.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.1 cm.
PML copy listed under Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg, Division C in Checklist.

Binding:

Contemporary blind-rolled brown calf over wooden boards (28.5 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports in Augsburg, Flechtwerk workshop (Flechtwerkrolle), active 1473-1527, EBDB w002155/Kyriss 86; repaired by Duprez Lahey. No pastedowns, plain paper fly leaves; stuck-on leather endbands (Lahey). Two clasps, wanting. Missal fragments, Germany, late-14th/early-15th century, used to reinforce hinge.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes (in quire a only, rubrication in remainder of text unrealized). Annotations: Marginal annotations predominantly in the two "Sermo de adventu domini." Inscriptions (front fly leaf recto): "Altissimus semper obβua" and price: 24 fl. Inscription on half-title page (leaf a1r) referring to Ailly as the teacher of Jean Gerson, "preceptor J. Gersonis." Note at end of tabula (leaf a2r): "amen l.c.[i?]".

Provenance:

Rott am Inn (Bavaria), Benedictines, Sts. Marinus and Anianus, inscription: "FF. Benedd. Oeno-Rothensiu[m]," 17th century (leaf a2r); Munich, Court Library, duplicate inscription (front fly verso) but no stamps; E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., lots 70 and 1 in two unidentified catalogues, 1923-25; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt, March 1925.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books