Incipit pulcher tractat[us] coll[e]c[t]us p[er] venerabilem doctore[m] Walteru[m] Burley Anglicu[m], de vita ph[ilosoph]o[rum].

Accession number:

PML 81

Author:

Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?

Published:

[Cologne] : Per me Arnoldum Ter Hornen, 1472.

Description:

[98] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from caption, leaf [1]/3r, printed in red.
Imprint from colophon, printed in red, leaf [11]/8v: Et sic finitur perpulcher tractatus [con]tinens vita[m] mores: ac elega[n]tissima phylozopho[rum] dca: simul et gesta. Per me Arnoldu[m] ter horne[n] Anno d[omi]ni .1472. [printer's mark]
Printed in Ther Hoernen's type 1:100G.
Library's copy listed under Division A in Checklist.
Collation: [1-11⁸; 12¹⁰]: 98 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.1 x 14.2 cm.

Binding:

18th-century straight-grained red morocco, tooled in blind with fillets in gold, over paper boards (22 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports, attributed to Roger Payne. Plain yellow paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

De vita philosophorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication largely unrealized, a few contemporary initials in red; marginal ruling lines added to leaves [1]/1r-3r and black/gold initial on 3r are likely later additions. Annotations: A few manicules and 'nota bene' marks throughout text. Contemporary manuscript foliation on leaves [1]/3-[11]/8.

Provenance:

Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscription, 26 March 1791 (front endleaf 1 recto), purchased at Payne's sale for £5.5.0, dated 12 Sept. 1806 (rear endleaf 1 recto), through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne: J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 534 for £10.10.0; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 155, 8/5/96 and price code: wl/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books