Liber moralitatum elegantissimus magnaru[m] rerum naturalium Lumen anime dictus.

Accession number: 
PML 20597
Author: 
Godefridus, de Vorau, active 1332.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], 31 December 1477.
Description: 
[350] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes: 

A reprint of Sorg's edition of 3 Sept. 1477.
A substantially altered recension of the Lumen Animae A (attributed to Berengarius de Landora), compiled by Gottfried of Vorau in 1332; edited by Matthias Farinator. On the authorship, see VL V:1050-54 and Mary A. Rouse and Richard H. Rouse, "The Texts called Lumen Animae," Archivum Fratrum Praedicatorum 41 (1971): 5-113.
Bearer type beneath colophon (leaf [35]/10r).
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸; 6-17¹⁰ 18¹² 19-25¹⁰; 26-35¹⁰]: 350 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [6]/1 blank.
Colophon (leaf [35]/10r): Liber lumen anime dictus feliciter explicit. Qui (post diutinam occultationem divina coopera[n]te gratia) no[n] sine magnis laborib[us] ad laude[m] omnipotentis dei: totiusq[ue] triumpha[n]tis ecclesie honorem [et] decorem: atq[ue] in maiorem fructu[m] ipsius militantis ecclesie piorum filiorum: simulq[ue] utilitatem: Stagneis caracteribus: primum in lucem est productus. Annoq[ue] a nati[v]itate d[omi]ni Millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimoseptimo. Ultima die decembris (summa cu[m] dilige[n]tia) co[m]pletus.
Copies also known without colophon, see Pell 4746, Günt(L) 166.
Misprinted line, last line of leaf [28]/8v reprinted as first line of [28]/9r: ...invitat malos ad penitentiam: sicut flagellum dei: ad patientiam dei... Line on [28]/8v crossed out in PML copy.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.1 x 20.8 cm
PML copy listed under Division A in Checklist, under editor's name.
Printed in Zainer's types 2:118dG (headings) and 4:95R (text).
The text is often treated anonymously or found under the editor's name.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Liber moralitatum elegantissimus magnaru[m] rerum naturalium Lumen anime dictus...

Binding: 
Modern half brown goatskin over boards covered in decorative paper (30 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; gilt and gauffered edges, with "Lumen Anime Farniator."
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards (when required), paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (consistent through quire [8] then sporadic through remainder of text). Annotations: No notations in text. Occasional lus signs in margins noting certain texts, in graphite.

Provenance: 
Weissenau (Baden-Württemberg), SS. Peter and Paul, Premonstratensians, 17th-century inscription: Monasterij Weissenau[iensis], abraded/visible under UV ([1]/2r); unidentified shelf mark, in pencil: F 106 (leaf [1]/1r); Girolamo D'Adda (1815-1881), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown), purchased D'Adda library about 1901; his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 174 to Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown from former binding) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned July 1919).
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