Accession number:
PML 51240
Published:
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zell], [about 1473]
Description:
[310] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1960.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Prologus Cesarii cistercie[n]sis monachi i[n] Heysterbach in dyalogu[m] miraculorum Incipit feliciter.
Printed in Zell's type 2:115G.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6-7⁸ 8-24¹⁰ 25-26⁶ 27-31¹⁰ 32-33⁶]: 310 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 20.3 cm.
PML copy missin 1 leaf: [1]/1, blank.
PML copy listed under Zell, Division B in Checklist.
Binding:
19th-century blind-tooled full brown goatskin over wooden boards (28.7 x 21.3 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Francis Bedford. Plain parchment pastedowns, parchment and paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; all edges gilt.
Variant Title:
Dialogus miraculorum.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, L-brackets, and ruling lines. Annotations: Manuscript catchwords and signatures (mainly trimmed) in top right corner of first recto. Minimal marginal notations throughout text.
Provenance:
Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 15 Nov. 1911, pt. 2, lot 1246; Hans Meyer (1858-1929), of Leipzig, signature (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., Nov. 1960.
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