Incipit liber prim[us] b[ea]ti bernardi de co[n]sideratione ad eugeniu[m] papa[m].

Accession number: 
PML 77118
Author: 
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Published: 
[Utrecht] : [Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt], [1474]
Description: 
[40] leaves ; 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1981.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC. PML Checklist dates [1473-1474].
Printed in Ketelaer and de Leempt's type 1C:122G.
Collation: [1-5⁸]: 40 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [5]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 19.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with Sexton armorial by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

De consideratione

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, keywords, and manicules in at least 2 hands sporadically throughout text.

Provenance: 
Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 109, booklabels (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 181 to Lathrop C. Harper for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in 1981.
Classification: 
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