Vita scholastica.

Accession number: 
PML 32975
Author: 
Bonvesin, da la Riva, approximately 1250-1314?
Published: 
Pictavis : [Jean Bouyer and Guillaume Bouchet], Anno d[omi]ni M cccc.xcix Die xvi. mensis Julii [16 July 1499].
Description: 
[26] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1936.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r, with Bouyer's printer's device.
Imprint from colophon, leaf D4v: Explicit vita Scholastica noviter impressa Pictavis Anno d[omi]ni M cccc.xcix Die xvi. mensis Julii.
Printed in Bouyer's types 10:110G and 11:76G.
Signatures: A-B⁸ C⁶ D⁴: 26 leaves. Signed to the sheet.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Edited by Bertrandus Baudon.
Woodcut of Mass of St. Gregory below colophon, leaf D4v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.3 x 14 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century dark red morocco over paper boards (19 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Maggs Bros., cat. 533 (1930), no. 50, supposedly acquired from Émile Nourry (i.e. Pierre Saintyves), who had separated a Sammelband of 11 rare Poitiers incunabula (see letter from Clifford Maggs in ChL 1596T file), price code: rsoo and binding price code: aoo (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased June 1936.
Classification: 
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