Diete salutis.

Accession number:

PML 78172

Author:

Bonaventure, Saint, Cardinal, approximately 1217-1274 attributed.

Published:

Cologne : Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 1474.

Description:

[70] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the L.C. Harper Fund, 1984.

Notes:

Text ascribed to Guillelmus de Lavicea or Lanicia (cf Distelbrink 124); BMC to St. Bonaventure, GW to Pseudo-Bonaventura.
Title from incipit (leaf [2]a1r): Subiectus tractatus qui diete salutis vocabulo censet[ur] multas materias de viciis, de v[ir]tutibus, p[re]ceptisque...
Imprint from colophon (leaf g10r): Explicit liber qui nuncpat[ur] dyeta salutis in quo habentur s[er]mones applicabiles per totu[m] a[n]nu[m] de crimib[us] et viciis hominu[m] una cu[m] collac[i]o[n]ib[us] pulcerrimis Impressi q[uoque] su[n]t hii sermones Colonie p[er] me magist[e]r Iha[n]nem Colhoff Anno d[omi]ni 1474. LAUS DEO.
Printed in Koelhoff's type 3:95aG.
Collation: a⁸; [2]a¹⁰ b¹⁰ c-f⁸ g¹⁰: 70 leaves, leaf a1 blank; leaf [2]a2 signed [2]a1.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 20.4 cm.

Binding:

18th- or 19th-century half leather over paper boards with marbled paper sides (28.3 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Foredge tabs, wanting. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Booksellers' "collated and complete" notes (front and rear pastedowns).

Provenance:

Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 925; unidentified French sale catalogue description (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, September 1984.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Marbled papers (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books