Aphorismi compunctionis theologicales / Hieronymi Baldung, artiu[m] et medici[n]a[rum] doctoris [et]c. : Ad reuerendissimu[m] in [Christ]o patre[m] et d[omi]n[u]m d[omi]n[u]m Fridericum presulem Augustensem [et]c.

Accession number: 
PML 65
Author: 
Baldung, Hieronymus.
Published: 
[Strassburg] : Actumque per magistrum Iohannem Grüninger civis Argentinensis, .MCCCCXCVII. Octavo denique yduum Ianuarij [6 January 1497].
Description: 
[40] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 18.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf k3v: Ex gratia eleme[n]tissimi iesu q[uem] e[st] red regu[m], d[omi]n[u]s d[omi]nantiu[m], alpha [et] o[mega], lux via veritas [et] vita iudexq[ue] viuo[rum] [et] mortuo[rum] sple[n]dor gl[or]ie, ac matris eius benedicte. Finit p[ar]ticula q[ua]rta aphorismoru[m] co[m]pu[n]ct[i]o[n]is. Actu[m]q[ue] per magistru[m] Iohannem Grüninger ciuis Arge[n]tin[ensis]. Anno i[n]carnat[i]o[n]is .MCCCCXCVII. Octauo deniq[ue] yduum Ianuarij.
Printed in Grüninger's types 17:145G and 22:89R.
Signatures: a-k⁴: 40 leaves, leaf k4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.1 x 13 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: k4 (blank).

Binding: 
19th-century English, blind- and gilt-tooled full reddish-brown goatskin over paper boards (18.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports, perhaps by Riviere (similar tooling pattern to other signed bindings). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Aphorismi compunctionis theologicales

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 114, 19/3/96 and price code: s/wy/- +___ (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books