Incipit prologus de vtilitate p[rae]sentis operis reductorij mo[r]alis reuerendi do[m]ini petri berthorij auctoris dictionarij et pro declaratio[n]e tabula s[u]bsequentis.

Accession number: 
PML 79824
Author: 
Bersuire, Pierre, approximately 1290-1362.
Published: 
Daventrie : per Richardum Paffroet, Anno incarnationis domini Millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo septimo [1477].
Description: 
[468] leaves ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 1989.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf A2r.
Imprint from colophon, printed in red, leaf L7v: Explicit Apocalipsis. liber tricesimusquintus et vltimus reductorij moralis figurarum biblie. sup[er] vtriumq[ue] testamentum. a venerabili domino Petro bertorij p[ri]ore sancti eligij parisiensis ordinis sa[n]cti benedicti: de pictauie partib[us] oriundo. auinione[m] factus. daue[n]trie diligenti correctione emendatus pu[n]ctuatus et tabulatus at[que] impressus Anno i[n]carnat[i]onis d[omi]ni Millesimo quadri[n]gentesimo septuagesimo septimo per Richardu[m] paffroet de Colonia. ciuem daue[n]trie[n]se[m]. pro ornati munitione et edificatione vniuersalis ecc[les]ie. et sponsi eiusdem honore. d[omi]ni n[ost]ri ihesu [christ]i qui est benedictus in secula. AMEN.
Printed in Pafraet's type 1A:89G.
Signatures: A-B¹⁰ C-E⁸; a-z aa-hh¹⁰ ii¹²; A-H¹⁰ I⁶ K-L⁸: 468 leaves, leaf A1 unsigned, A2 signed A, A3 signed A2, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 14 leaves: A1 (blank), ii¹², and L8 (blank).

Binding: 
19th-century half brown goatskin, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (29.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Liber Bibliae moralis

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and L-brackets partially realized (quires A-C and a-b only). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Würzburg (Bavaria), Conventual Franciscans, printed label: "Ad Bibliothecam FF. Min. Convent. Wirceburgi," (leaf A2r); Collooney (Co. Sligo, Ireland), Markree Library, label (front pastedown), Markree Castle was held by the Cooper family; T. Connolly, Bookseller, Dublin, ticket (front pastedown); unidentified shelfmark label: A.6. (front pastedown); unidentified English sale catalogue description, no. 191; Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library, inherited by his son: John Ehrman (1920-2011), Bibliotheca Broxbourniana label (rear pastedown), Broxbourne sale, part I, Sotheby's, 14 Nov. 1977, lot 133 for £3200 to E.J. Brill N.V.; Jeffrey Mancevice, List 72, no. 3; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Mancevice on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 1989.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Half bindings (Binding)
Marbled papers (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books