Tractat[us] beati Bernhard de pla[n]ctu b[ea]te Marie.

Accession number: 
PML 22408
Author: 
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1470]
Description: 
[6] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Puchased in 1924.
Notes: 

GW identifies author as Pseudo-Bernardus.
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Collation: [1⁶]: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.7 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century English(?) calf over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative, stuck-on endbands; red edges.
Variant Title: 

De planctu B. Mariae Virginis

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemprary rubrication, red initial, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
G.F.I. Du Trieu, signature (front endleaf 2 verso); Rev. Morgan Dix (1827-1908), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Acton Griscom (probably son of Clement Acton Griscom, Jr. (1868-1918), Clement Acton Griscom (1841-1912) was business associate of Pierpont Morgan), signature (front endleaf 2 recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Mr. Griscom, June 1924.
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