Incipit tractatus magistri Iohannis Gerson cancellarij Parisiensis de laude scriptorum ad Carthusienses et Celestinos : ymmo totam ecclesiam generaliter ordinatus anno domini M.cccc.xxxij vel iii. Lugduni de q[uo] sit deus benedictus in secula am[en].

Accession number: 
PML 21788
Author: 
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Printer of Augustinus, 'De fide'], [about 1473]
Description: 
[12] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1922.
Notes: 

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Augustinus 'De fide' type 1:105G.
The printer has been identified with Goiswin Gops and with Johann Schilling (cf. Corsten(Anfänge) pp.44-45 and Needham, Ars impressoria, pp.126-28).
On arguments for dating see BMC.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁴]: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 13.5 cm.

Binding: 
Late 19th-/early 20th-century parchment over stiff paper boards (21 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands. Ribbon ties, missing. Blank paper bound at end to fill out binding.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrircation, alternating red and blue initials and red capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures.

Provenance: 
Unidentified inscription: "V-B-W 803" (leaf [2]/4v); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Oct. 1922.
Classification: 
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