Incipit summa que vocat[ur] catholicon edita a fratre ioha[n]ne de ianua ordinis frat[rum] p[re]dicato[rum].

Accession number: 
PML 118
Author: 
Balbi, Giovanni, -1298.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch)], [not after 1475]
Description: 
48 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1905.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit summa que vocat[ur] catholicon edita a fratre ioha[n]ne de ianua ordinis frat[rum] p[re]dicato[rum].
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch) type 2:100G.
The copy in Freiburg UB has a rubricator's date of 1475.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11¹⁰ 12-13⁸ 14-18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20-21¹⁰ 22-23⁸; 24-31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33-34¹⁰ 35¹² 36⁸ 37-40¹⁰ 41⁸ 42⁶]: 400 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [42]/6 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 56.6 x 32 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [42]/6 (blanks).

Binding: 
19th-century French gilt-tooled mosaic goatskin (orange, red, green, blue, black, and yellow) over heavy paper boards (48 x 35.5 cm), sewn on 5 supprts by P-M Lortic, 1851, with the arms and monogram of Charles-Louis de Bourbon, comte de Villafranca on boards and spine. Gilt-tooled goatskin doublures, with silk endleaves, marbled paper endleaves, and plain paper endleaves; decorative stuck-on endbands; gilt and gauffered edges using armorial and decorative motifs from illuminated border (leaf [1]/2r). Lortic was given a medal at the Great Exposition, London, 1851 for this bookbinding, see Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes Into which the Exhibition was Divided, vol. II, Class XVII, 452.
Variant Title: 

Incipit summa que vocatur catholicon edita a fratre Iohanne de Ianua ordinis fratrum predicatorum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Bruges illuminated initial and foliate border and unidentified armorial: azure, bend argent, chevron gules and three flowers (leaf [1]/2r), initials in red and blue (primary initial A, leaf [7]/7r, only one with penwork decoration), paragraph marks, and yellow capital strokes. Same hand and armorial as in PML 25 and 306. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mainly trimmed.

Provenance: 
Unidentified Bruges/Flemish armorial (leaf [1]/2r); Charles-Louis de Bourbon, comte de Villafranca (1799-1884), armorial with motto "Deus et dies" on boards and crowned monogram "C V C B" on spine (see Bouland, "Bibliothèque liturgique de son altesse royale Charles-Louis de Bourbon," Archives de la Société française des collectionneurs d'ex-libris, 100-104); unidentified French (Bourbon or Rahir?) sale catalogue, no. 188 and English catalogue description (front endleaf 3 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Edouard Rahir, June 1905.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books