Incipit prologus sup[er] conclusiones de diuersis materijs moralibus vtiles valde posite per m[a]g[ist]r[u]m Iohanne[m] Gerson doctorem theologie eximiu[m] ac cancellarium Parisiensem.

Accession number: 
PML 16170.2
Author: 
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [not after 1470]
Description: 
20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
A copy rubricated in 1470 (BMC-reprint).
Printed in Zel's types 1b:106/111G and 2:115G.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-5⁸]: 40 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [5]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 13 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [5]/8 (blanks).

Binding: 
18th-century English gilt-tooled (Harleian style) red morocco over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Conclusiones de diversis materiis moralibus, sive De regulis mandatorum.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early foliation.

Provenance: 
Bulkeley Bandinel (1781-1861), Bodleian Librarian, Oxford, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sales, Sotheby's, 2 and 12 Aug. and 20 Dec. 1861 and 10 Feb. 1862; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Sept. 1909.
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