Accession number:
PML 79874
Published:
[Rome] : [Georgius Lauer], [about 1470]
Description:
[4] leaves ; 22 x 16.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 1989.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): [G]lorioso et felici militi Raymundo d[omi]no castri Ambrosii. Bernardus in senium deductus. Salute[m]. Doceri petisti a nobis de modo et cura rei familiaris utilius gubernande.
No colophon. Printer based on type.
Printed in Lauer's type 1:128R.
Collation: [1⁴]: 4 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
The true author is Bernardus Silvestris (Lexikon für Theologie und Kirche. 2 Aufl. (Freiburg 1957-67) Bd.2 col.248).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.8 x 16 cm.
Binding:
Modern quarter brown calf with paper sides over paper boards (22 x 16.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title:
Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and ruling. Annotations: Inscription on leaf [1]/1r bleached. Paper with modern extensions at outer and top margins.
Provenance:
Dukes d'Arenberg, label "121" on top board; Swann Galleries, 19 Oct. 1989, lot 16; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased via L.C. Harper, Oct. 1989.
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