Incipit tractatus de simplificac[i]o[n]e stabilic[i]one seu mu[n]dificac[i]one cordis m[a]g[ist]ri Ioha[n]nis Gerson ca[n]cellarij P[ar]isien[sis].

Accession number: 
PML 87
Author: 
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Published: 
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1472]
Description: 
[70] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC. GW dates about 1470.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-8⁸ 9⁶]: 70 leaves, leaf [9]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 13.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [9]/6 (blank).

Binding: 
18th-century French (rebound in Paris, 1781) calf over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 4 supports; repaired. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Variant Title: 

De simplificatione, stabilitione, sive mundificatione cordis. Add: De directione, sive rectitudine cordis; De perfectione cordis; Trigilogium astrologiae theologizatae; Contra superstitiosam dierum observantiam; Contra superstitionem sculpturae leonis (adversus doctrinam cuiusdam medici in Montepessulano); De observatione dierum quantum ad opera.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/1r); Charles Jordan, purchase: "£x--va/x" and rebinding inscription (front endleaf 1 recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 66, 14/4/94 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books