Incipit liber ruraliu[m] co[m]modoru[m], a Petro de crescentiis ciue Bonon[iensis].

Accession number: 
PML 627
Author: 
Crescenzi, Pietro de', ca. 1233-ca. 1320.
Published: 
Louaniensi : impressum per Joannem de Westfalia, .M°.cccc°.lxxiiii°. mensis Decembris die nona [9 December 1474].
Description: 
[198] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, printed in red, leaf [20]/5v: Presens opus ruraliu[m] comodorum Petri de crescentiis. quodam industrioso caracterisandi stilo: nouissime omnipotentis dei suffragio adinue[n]to. extitit hac littera vera modernata. abscisa. [et] formata: impressum. p[er] Ioannem de vvestfalia Paderbornen[sis] dyocesis. In alma ac flore[n]tissima vniuersitate Louanie[n]si residente[n]. Anno incarnationis dominice .M°.cccc°.lxxiiii°. mensis Decembris die nona.
Printed in Westfalia's type 1A:89/90G.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10¹² 11-19¹⁰ 20⁶]: 198 leaves, leaf [1]/1 and [20]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern (after Morgan acquisition) quarter brown goatskin, with buckram sides, over paper boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title: 

Ruralia commoda

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Low Countries rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; primary initials have green penwork decoration and wash. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript foliation and alpha-numeric signatures. Bibliographic note (by Verdussen or Bruijnincx?) citing copies sold (this copy or other copies?): Baron de Schoonbergh, tome i, pag. 15a for f20 florenorum; Gaignat sale, part I (1769), lot 1035, for fr. 73.13 (front endleaf 3 verso).

Provenance: 
Jean-Baptiste Verdussen III (1698-1773), bookplate with motto: "Tutissima virtus pietas homini" (front and rear pastedowns, preserved from previous binding), his sale, Antwerp, 15 July 1776, lot 37 (p. 305) to Dh. Can. Bruijnincx for 33.30; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding) and price code: r/wm/- +___ (front endleaf 2 recto, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books