Accession number:
PML 27004
Uniform title:
De cometis.
Published:
[Beromünster] : [Helias Haliae], [after April 1472]
Description:
[12] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1929.
Notes:
Uniform title and imprint from Goff; title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
The Thuricensis physicus to whom the text is ascribed is probably Eberhard Schleusinger, although he has also been identified as Conrad Heingarter (cf. authorities quoted in Sack(Freiburg)). On the question of the authorship, see also CIBN.
Printed in Heliae's type 2:99R.
Signatures: [1]¹²: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 44 lines.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 20.5 cm.
Binding:
Modern full black goatskin over paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), by Sangorski and Sutcliffe of London. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title:
Tractatus de cometis
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red paragraph marks and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript quire signatures.
Provenance:
E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., cat. 21 (1930), no. 46; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, Dec. 1929.
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