Accession number:
PML 15511
Published:
[Basel] : [Johann Amerbach], [not after 1489]
Description:
[254] leaves ; 30.5 cm. (folio)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Amerbach's types 4:185G, 6:108G, 11:82G, and 14:285G.
A copy at Neuburg has an owner's note with the date 1489. A copy at München UB has a rubricator's date 1490.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-d⁸ e-h⁶/⁸ i-k⁶ l-v⁸/⁶ x-y⁶ z⁸ A⁶ Aa⁸ B⁸ C-D⁶ E-H⁸/⁶ I⁸ K-L¹⁰: 254 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
2 columns, 54 lines. Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.4 x 21.5 cm.
Binding:
Modern half brown goatskin, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (31 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary southern German (Fürstenfeld?) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials (with scrolling extensions), red paragraph marks and capital strokes. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations.
Provenance:
Leonardus Egenhofer, abbot of Fürstenfeld (abb. 1480-1496), purchased inscription: "Dominus Leonardus Theologus Abbas huius loci hunc librum comperavit" (leaf a1r); Fürstenfeld (Bavaria), Cistercians, inscription: "Monasterij Fürstenveld," 17th century (leaf a1r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Enrico Torrini, 1907.
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