Hexameron.

Accession number:

PML 20451

Author:

Ambrose, Saint, Bishop of Milan, -397.

Published:

Augsburg : Johann Schüssler, about 5 May 1472.

Description:

[77] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Hexameron Beati Ambrosii Mediolanensis ep[iscop]i. Incipit feliciter.
Colophon (leaf [8]/7r): Beati Ambrosii Episcopi mediolanensis opusculum quod hexameron vocitatur; iucunde explicit. Per Iohannem Sschuβler [sic] imperialis urbis Aug[ustae]. civem q[uide]m diligenter impressum. Anno salutifere incarnationis hiesu saluatoris, Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimosecundo. Circiter ydus maiias xi.
Printed in Schüssler's type 1:117G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹⁰(+1) 4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6-7¹⁰ 8⁸]: 77 leaves, leaf [8]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 20.9 cm., trimmed.

Binding:

19th-century brown goatskin with gilt-tooled border over boards (31.5 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Clarke & Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; edges gilt.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining/boxes around incipit/explicit. "Hexameron Ambrosii" written in red (leaf [1]/1r). Annotations: Contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures in bottom right corner of rectos, mostly trimmed. Minor contemporary notations in text.

Provenance:

Formerly part of a Sammelband, "2." denoting second text (leaf [1]/1r, likely a Munich, Court Library duplicate); unidentified shelf mark: Df6, in pencil (front pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Feb. 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Rubrics

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books