Incipit rationale diuinorum officiorum / editum per reverendissimum [in] Christo [et] patrem d[omi]n[u]m d[omi]n[u]m Guilielmum duranti...

Accession number: 
PML 78482
Author: 
Durand, Guillaume, approximately 1230-1296.
Published: 
Veneciis : Gulielmu[m] tredinense[m] de monferato, M.cccc.lxxxvii. die .xx. novembris [20 November 1487]
Description: 
[198] leaves (the last 2 blank) : 1 illustration (woodcut) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in memory of Dr. Curt F. Bühler by some of his friends, 1985.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf
Imprint from colophon (leaf G5r): Finit feliciter rationale divinorum officioru[m]: magna cum diligentia revisum [et] fideli studio emendatu[m]: Impressum Veneciis arte [et] impensis Gulielmu[m] tredinense[m] de monferato: Anno salutifere incarnatio[n]is domini .M.cccc.lxxxvii. die .xx. novembris.
Printed in types 4*:79G and 10:140G.
Signatures: a-e⁸ f⁶ g⁸ i⁶ h⁸ k-z⁶ A-E⁶ F-G⁸: 198 leaves, leaf G7-8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Format from ISTC and Harman. GW, IGI, and Goff record as 4to.
Edited by Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus and Gabriel Brunus. Cf. ISTC and Harman.
Woodcut diagram, initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: G7-8 (blanks). Leaf m1 severely torn, repaired with strips of medieval manuscript.

Binding: 
16th/early 17th-century German blind-tooled pigskin over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, woodcut initials highlighted in red, red paragraph marks and capital strokes. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text. 16th-century foliation. Fore-edge manuscript title.

Provenance: 
Unidentified inscription: "[cut away] Wolfgangus," 15th century (leaf a1r); Sebastian Eysenhuet, inscription: "Codicem istium hereditavit Sebastianus Eysenhuet de domino Johanne Wagist de Aula prope Novoforo et magister Christophoro medimotano vendidit [?] artis sabato quatour dierum in I[???] Ano p .46. Constat et illigando 3βd" (leaf a1v) and inscription, 1546 (leaf a1r); Jorg von [??]ebinberg, "Drum und frolich," 16th/17th century (leaf a1r); Fr. Joan. Praepositus Pernen (leaf a2r); Fr. Gregorius Christianus, signature, 17th century (front pastedown); Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl (d. ca. 1960?), of Achstetten; his sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 239; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Bloomsbury via L.C. Harper in memory of Curt F. Bühler by some of his friends, Nov. 1985.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Blind stamped bindings (Binding)
Pigskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books