Incipit opusculu[m] trip[ar]titum de preceptis decalogi de [con]fessio[n]e [et] de arte morie[n]di / p[er] eximiu[m] sacre theologie p[ro]fessore[m] magistru[m] Ioha[n]nem Gerson alme vniuersitatis P[ar]isiens[is] Ca[n]cellariu[m].

Accession number:

PML 77089

Author:

Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.

Published:

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1467]

Description:

[32] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased as the gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1981.

Notes:

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit opusculu[m] trip[ar]titum de preceptis decalogi de [con]fessio[n]e [et] de arte morie[n]di, p[er] eximiu[m] sacre theologie p[ro]fessore[m] magistru[m] Ioha[n]nem Gerson alme vniuersitatis p[ar]isiens[is] Ca[n]cellariu[m].
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's types 1a:99G and 2:115G.
PML copy listed under Division A. $1 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-4⁸]: 32 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [4]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.2 x 12.8 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [4]/8 (blanks).

Binding:

19th-century mottled calf over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 2 supports; rebacked. Renewed plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.

Variant Title:

Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione, et de arte moriendi

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary (Spanish?, probably not Lower Rhine) rubrication, bluish (oxidized silver?) initials, red paragraph marks and capital strokes, with yellow capital in-fill and highlighting of incipits. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Alburquerque (Spain), Convento de la Madre de Dios, inscription: "Este libro es de la madre de dios de Alburquerque," 16th century (leaf [1]/2r); Sir William Betham (1779-1853), signature (leaf [1]/2r), his sale, Sotheby's, 2 June 1854; Sotheby's London, 19 Feb. 1945, lot 256 for £44 to Thorp; Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 30, booklabels (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 43, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Henry S. Morgan, April 1981.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Tree calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books