Accession number:
PML 22102
Published:
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1467-1470]
Description:
[8] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes:
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Dated by CIBN. GW dates as about 1470.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13 cm.
Binding:
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain, stuck-on endbands; dark edges.
Variant Title:
De disciplina christiana
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Wilhelm of Taben Abbey (Taben-Rodt, south of Trier), donation inscription: "Pastor tabene Wilhelmus mentis amene / Hu[n]c librum plene legat poscitq[ue] serene / Ut [Christ]i cene bona gustet no[n] mala pene," 15th century (leaf [1]/8v), see Bühler, “Owners' Jingles in Early Printed Books: Libri Impressi Cum Notis Manuscriptis: XI,” 647-48.; unidentified (Trier SB?) shelfmark label (rectangular blue frame with perforated edges): 2304 VI (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Trier, Stadtbibliothek, stamp (leaf [1]/1r); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Joseph Baer, Oct. 1923.
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