Alphabetu[m] diuini amoris, de eleuac[i]o[n]e mentis in deu[m].

Accession number:

PML 21789

Published:

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1466-1467]

Description:

[28] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1922.

Notes:

The text, of unknown authorship, is variously ascribed in editions to Johannes Gerson, Thomas à Kempis, Johannes Nider or Nikolaus Kempf. See D. Martin, The Writings of Nikolaus Kempf of Strassburg, in Die Kartäuser in Österreich, Bd 1, Salzburg, 1980, 127-54, esp. p.154 (BSB-Ink, CIBN).
Title from explicit, leaf [3]/8v: Exlicit. Alphabetu[m] diuini amoris, de eleuac[i]o[n]e mentis in deu[m], venerabil[e]m m[a]g[ist]ri Ioh[annes] Gerson, Cancellarij parisien[sis].
Printed in Zel's type 1a:99G.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $1 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸]: 28 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.3 x 14.3 cm.

Binding:

20th-century parchment over stiff paper boards (22 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands. Ribbon ties, missing.

Variant Title:

Alphabetum divini amoris

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Cologne, Order of the Holy Cross, book donation from Jakob Udemans of Erkelenz, pastor in Wailhoven, inscription: "liber [con]vent[us] fr[atre]m Crucifeo[rum] in Colonia Ex dona[cione] hon[orabi]lis d[ominu]m Iacobi Vdema[n]s de Erekle[n]s pasto[rum] in Wailho[v]en," 15th century (leaf [1]/1r), library incorporated into the Cologne, Gymnasial-Bibliothek, stamp, deaccessioned duplicate (leaf [1]/1r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Oct. 1922.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books