Accession number:
PML 78360
Published:
[Venice] : Leonhardus Aurl, 1473.
Description:
[150] leaves ; 31.5 x 22 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased as the gift of Dr. Ruth Nanda Anshen and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gourary, 1985.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): [E]USEBIUM Pamphili de evangelica praep[ar]atione latinu[m] ex graeco beatissime pater iussu tuo effeci.
Colophon (leaf [15]/8v): .M.CCCC.LXXIII. .Leonardus Aurl.
Printed in type 1:116R.
Collation: [1¹² 2-14¹⁰ 15⁸]: 150 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated by Georgius Trapezuntius.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.2 x 21 cm, trimmed.
PML copy wants 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding:
Modern gilt-tooled full red goatskin over paper boards (31.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, major initials in red and blue with penwork decoration, red lombards and capital strokes. Annotations: A few early marginal notations on the first few leaves only. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mostly trimmed.
Provenance:
Fürstenfeld (Bavaria), Cistercians, inscriptions: "Liber s[an]cte marie In furstenveld fry[sin]g[ense] dyoc[ese] ord[inis] Cyst[er]ci[ensis]," 15th century (leaf [15]/8v) and "Monasterii Fürstenveld," 17th century (leaf [1]/2r); A. de St.-Ferriol, book label (front pastedown); 3 unidentified French sale catalogue descriptions, nos. 63, 96099 for 90 fr., and 84062 (front fly leaf verso); Bruce McKittrick Rare Books; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Dr. Ruth Nanda Anshen and Mr. and Mrs. Paul Gourary, May 1985.
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