Incipit tractatus de symonia / m[a]g[ist]ri Iohannis Gerson cancellarij Parisiensis.

Accession number: 
PML 19116.1
Author: 
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1467-1472]
Description: 
[30] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes: 

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Polain dates about 1470, Goff about 1467-72.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-3⁸ 4⁶]: 30 leaves, leaf [4]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm.

Binding: 
15th-century German pigskin (tooled only with fillets in blind) over wooden boards (22.5 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns, with vellum reinforcement around book block; plain endbands. 1 strap/peg clasp, missing.
Variant Title: 

De simonia

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (same style in works 1-3 and 5 in volume). Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations throughout text. Manuscript table of contents for Sammelband (front endleaf 1 recto) and extensive notes at end of volume.

Provenance: 
Ownership inscription torn away (De simonia, leaf [1]/1r); C. Deterich, signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Eduard Rahir, April 1911.
Classification: 
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