Meditac[i]o[n]es vite d[omi]ni n[ost]ri [Christ]i.

Accession number:

PML 120

Uniform title:

Meditationes vitae Christi.

Published:

Augsburg : Günther Zainer, 12 March [14]68.

Description:

[72] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Prolog[us] i[n] meditac[i]o[n]es vite d[omi]ni n[ost]ri [Christ]i
Imprint from colophon (leaf [8]/8v): "Impressum est hoc p[rea]sens opusculu[m] i[n] augusta p[er] me Gintherum dictu[m] zeyner de reutlingen. iiii° ydus marcii. Anno lx° octavo."
Printed in Zainer's type 1:117G.
Sometimes attributed to Pseudo-Bonaventura (cf. GW and ISTC) or Johannes de Caulibus (cf. BBFN Inc p.119f and Bod-inc B-418).
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-4⁸ 5-6¹⁰; 7¹⁰; 8⁸]: 72 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.9 x 22.3 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary Augsburg blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (31.6 x 22.4 cm), sewn on 3 supports by the Kreuz frei workshop (also known as Kreuzblumen-Buchbinder, EBDB w000967 and Kyriss 89); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and flyleaves, 2 contemporary fly leaves at end. One clasp, clasp and catchplate stamped "maria". Modern shelf mark in red paint on top board, "No. 9".

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated initial and foliate border in contemporary Augsburg style, with coat-of-arms of Cardinal Peter von Schaumberg, Archbishop of Augsburg (leaf [1]/3r); rubicated, red lombard initials and capital strokes. Annotations: No notations in text. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric signatures in bottom center of recto leaves, mostly trimmed.

Provenance:

Cardinal Peter von Schaumberg, Archbishop of Augsburg (1388-1469), coat-of-arms (leaf [1]/3r); Anton von Annenberg (1420-ca. 1480/84), signature, title inscription, and shelfmark ".136. F. C." (with decorative ball appendages to letterforms) (front endleaf recto); William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 415 to Quaritch for £7.5; William Morris, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith (1834-1896), booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

See more information »

Genres:

Incunabula

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Illuminations (Provenance)

Armorials (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books