Incipit p[ro]log[us] b[ea]ti B[er]n[ar]di super ewangelio missus est angelus Gabriel.

Accession number: 
PML 91
Author: 
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Printer of Augustinus, 'De fide'], [about 1473]
Description: 
19 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Augustinus 'De fide' type 1:105G.
The printer has been identified with Goiswin Gops and with Johann Schilling (cf. Corsten(Anfänge) pp.44-45 and Needham, Ars impressoria, pp.126-28).
Collation: [1-4⁸]: 32 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.3 x 13 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century half dark green calf, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (19 x 13.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and underlining; primary initial in blue. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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