Accession number:
PML 524.2
Published:
Impressus Parisius : per Peirum Poullhac [for] Denis Rosse, Anno salut[is] M.cccc. nonagesimoquarto me[n]sis marcii die quarta [4 March 1494/1495].
Description:
[28] leaves ; 14 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf [a]1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf d4r: Explicit tractatus corporis christi. Impressus parisius per Peiru[m] poullhac. Anno salut[is] M.cccc. nonagesimoquarto me[n]sis marcii die quarta. Roce's device, leaf [a]/1r.
Printed in Poulhac's types 1:110G(?) and 2:64G.
Signatures: [a]-c⁸ d⁴: 28 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.3 x 9 cm.
Binding:
18th-century French gilt-tooled calf over paper boards (13.5 x 9.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Decorative printed paper pastedowsn and endleaves; red edges.
Variant Title:
Tractatus corporis Christi: Quomodo sacerdotes se debeant habere erga eucharistiam consecrandam
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initials and capital strokes (same throughout PML 524). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Albert Philippe Charles Vaernewyck, vicomte de Vaernewyck (1762-1841), manuscript name label (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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