Sermonarium de peccatis per adventum et per duas quadragesimas.

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Accession number:

PML 20698

Author:

Carcano, Michael de.

Published:

Impressum vero Basilee : per Michahele[m] Wenβler, quarto k[a]l[enda]s Junij Anno .M.CCCClxxix [29 May 1479].

Description:

[174, 100] leaves ; 39 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, part II, leaf [11]/9v: Explicit sermonariu[m] triplicatu[m] p[er] adue[n]tu[m], in quo tractat[ur] de peccato in generali. Et p[er] duas quadragesimas: in q[uorum] vna tractat[ur] de trib[us] p[e]c[ca]tis principalib[us] sup[er]bia videlic[et] luxuria [et] auaricia cum spe[cie]b[us] et filiabus suis. In alia vero dereliguis quatuor p[e]c[ca]tis capitalibus, gula videlicet accidia ira [et] inuidia cu[m] specieb[us] ac etia[m] filiab[us] suis diffuse describit[ur]. Q[uo]d quid e[st] [com]pilatu[m] e[st] p[er] venerabile[m] fratre[m] Michahele[m] de Mediolano ordinis mi[n]o[rum] regularis obseruancie verbi dei p[re]dicatore[m]. Imp[re]ssum vero Basilee p[er] Michahele[m] Wenβler artis i[m]p[re]ssorie in geniosu[m] m[a]g[ist]r[um] quarto k[a]l[enda]s Junij Anno .M.CCCClxxix. feliciter [con]summatum.
Printed in Wenssler's types 1b:121G and 2:92G.
In two parts. Collation, part 1 (Sermones per adventum de peccato in genere etc.): [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3-4¹⁰ 5-6⁸ 7⁶ 8-10¹⁰ 11-12⁶ 13-16¹⁰ 17-20⁸]: 174 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; part 2 (Sermones per quadragesimam de aliis quattor peccatis etc.): [1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7-8⁸ 9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11¹⁰]: 100 leaves, leaf [11]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Incipit, part I, leaf [1]/3r printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 37.7 x 28 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-tooled leather over wooden boards (39 x 29 cm), sewn on 5 supports (most of the tools on the binding are unidentified, except the one eagle of St. John maybe found in EBDB w007363 (attributed to Cologne) and w002319 (attributed to Eberhardsklausen); the Cologne bindery makes more geographical sense with the Dortmund provenance and rubrication style, although Eberhardsklausen was a Windesheim house). Plain endband; pastedowns composed of multiple vellum medieval manuscript leaves. 2 clasps, 1 missing; evidence of chain attachment on rear board.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Sermonarium triplicatum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials (in a Lower Rhine style typically found in Windesheim houses). Annotations: Moderate marginal notations sporadically throughout volume.

Provenance:

Dortmund (North Rhine-Westphalia), Dominicans, inscription: "[con]vent[us] Tremon. Ord. Fra. praed." (leaf [1]/2r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in August 1896 by: Richard Bennett (1849-1930), sold off the Morris duplicates, Sotheby's, 5 Dec. 1898, lot 341; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [rho gamma], purchased Dec. 1898 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 2004, to Quaritch (with collation note, part II, leaf [11]/10r) for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Nov. 1917 (accessioned 1919).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books