Gerson de remedijs co[n]tra pusillanimitatem scrupulositatem, contra deceptorias inimici co[n]solac[i]o[n]es et s[u]btiles eius temptaciones.

Accession number: 
PML 78506
Author: 
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Printer of Dares (Johannes Solidi (Schilling))], [about 1472]
Description: 
[12] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1985,
Notes: 

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Printer of Dares's type 1:100G.
Collation: [1-2⁶]: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.3 x 14.6 cm.

Binding: 
Late 19th/early 20th-century German paste paper over paper boards (22 x 15.5 cm). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant Title: 

De remediis contra pusillanimitatem contra deceptorias inimici consolationes eiusque tentationes

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red/blue initial with penwork decoration, red paragraph marks and yellow capital fill. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout, including 2 leaves of reader's notes at end, citing material from other folios in the Sammelband. Contemporary manuscript signatures: a[primus], b[primus], c[primus], followed by a[secundus], etc.

Provenance: 
Previously part of an unidentified Sammelband, with manuscript foliation: [blue paragraph mark]140-51; unidentified shelfmark label: 34260 I. B. (spine); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. on the Harper Fund, Nov. 1985.
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