Expositio seu explanatio in corpus evangelii sancti luce evangeliste.

Accession number: 
PML 140
Author: 
Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397.
Published: 
Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 1476.
Description: 
[159] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit Expositio seu explanatio sancti Ambrosii episcopi in corpus evangelii sancti luce evangeliste...
Colophon (leaf [17]/10r): Magni ecclesie militantis luminaris. Ambrosii: sup[er] luce evangeliste evangeliis: scripta: per Anthonium Sorg incolam opidi Augustensis: ob nature naturantis gloriam huiusq[ue] exilii ampliorem eruditionem: stanneis karacteribus artificialiter effigita. Actus purissimi presidio finiu[n]t felicissime: dominice incarnationis. Anno millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo sexto. Laus entium enti eiusq[ue] dulcissime matri.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-13¹⁰/⁸ 14-15¹⁰ 16⁶(?+1) 17¹⁰]: 159 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Bearer type visible throughout.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1, but with incipit preserved and pasted on a modern blank.

Binding: 
Modern half green goatskin with sides covered in decorated paper over paper boards (31.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; all edges gilt.
Variant Title: 

Expositio in evangelium S. Lucae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, printed initials painted in red, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Heavy notations throughout in several hands, one dated 18 Nov. 1602. Contemporary manuscript numeric and alpha-numeric quire signatures.

Provenance: 
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and manuscript bibliographic description, tipped in (rear pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 152, 8/5/96 and price code wo/-/- +com (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Half bindings (Binding)
Decorated papers (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books