Stabilimentorum Rhodioru[m] Militu[m].

Accession number:

PML 204

Author:

Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501.

Published:

Ulm : Johann Reger, 23 August 1496.

Description:

[94] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

21 woodcuts and woodcut initials. Full-page author portrait of Caoursin holding Stabilimentorum (leaf m6v).
Collation note at end of colophon: a b c d e f g h i k l m Omnes sunt quaterni: excepto f q[ua] est ternus.
Collation: a-e⁸ f⁶ g-m⁸: 94 leaves, leaves m7-8 blank.
Colophon (leaf m6r): Stabilimenta militum hierosolymitanorum diligentissime Ulme impressa p[er] Johannem Reger de Kemnat. Anno ab incarnatione Dominica. Millesimoquadringentesimononagesimosexto. Die .xxiii. Augusti.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.4 x 18.1 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: m7-8 (blanks). Leaves m1 and m2 bound in reverse order.
Printed in Reger's type 3:92G.
Title from incipit (leaf a1v): Prohemium in volumen stabilimentorum Rhodioru[m] Militu[m] Sacri ordinis hospitalis sancti Iohannis Hierosolymitani.

Binding:

Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over stiff boards (27.5 x 18.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Stabilimenta militum Hierosolymitanorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. On woodcut initial painted in red (leaf d1v). Annotations: One marginal notation, trimmed (leaf d1v).

Provenance:

John Calvert, signature (leaf a1r); [his sale, Sotheby's, 8 June 1894?]; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, 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:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Woodcuts

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Paste papers (Binding)

Century:

20th century

Department:

Printed Books