Donatus moralisatus.

Accession number: 
PML 27538
Author: 
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], [not after 1472]
Description: 
[8] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1930.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Donatus arte grammaticus homini in sui ipsius [co]gnic[i]o[n]e[m] per allegoriam traductus incipit feliciter.
Printed in Zainer's type 2:118G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves, leaf [1]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Often found with Goff A1089, A1225, A1333 (incl. A1337), E106, H179, H192, I4 and P1001, in any combination. Some copies of the set (e.g. Windsor RL) have a separate small leaf with a collective title of the ten tracts (see BMC, reprint). The collection has H192 with rubricator's date of '72' in a private collection in USA (Roland Folter); previously dated before 5 June 1473 from the rubrication date ('1473 vigil pentec') of the Sammelband in Munich.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/8 (blank).
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist.

Binding: 
Modern half rust-colored goatskin over paper boards covered in decorated paper (29 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards and capital strokes. Annotations: Two Hebrew(?) notes or pentrials (leaves [1]/4r and [1]/7v).

Provenance: 
Lathrop C. Harper, A Selection of Incunabula, Pt. V (March 1930), no. 890; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Harper, July 1930.
Classification: 
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