Quinq[ua]ginta.

Accession number:

PML 23661

Author:

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.

Published:

Augsburg : Anton Sorg, about 1 February 1475.

Description:

[92] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1926.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Incipit liber beati Augustini episcopi/ qui vocatur quinq[ua]ginta.
Colophon (leaf [9]/12v): Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxv. circit[er] kal[ends] Februarii Impressus est liber iste ad honorem die. P[er] Anthoniu[m] Sorg in Augusta.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2¹⁰(9+1 non servet); 3¹⁰ 4¹²; 5-6¹⁰ 7⁶; 8¹⁰ 9¹²(10+1 se co[n]siliu[m])]: 92 leaves.
Paper format: hancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 20.5 cm.

Binding:

Modern full brown goatskin, by C.M. Ullman, 1961.

Variant Title:

Quinquaginta

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards, red paragraph marks (florid) and capital strokes. Annotations: Several marginal notations in rubricator's red indicating homelies. Manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures variably at top inner or bottom right corner of rectos, many trimmed.

Provenance:

Scheyern Abbey (Bavaria), Benedictines, inscription: "Mon[aster]ij Schyrensis," 17th century (leaf [1]/1r); George Dunn (1864-1912), Wooley Hall, booklabel (front pastedown) and price code: [mu alpha], purchased Dec. 1895 (rear endleaf 2 recto, previously bound at front); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 787, to Ellis for £6.10; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, June 1926.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books