Ex gestis romanor[um] hystorie no[ta]biles.

Accession number:

PML 20599

Uniform title:

Gesta Romanorum.

Published:

[Cologne : Ulrich Zell, about 1473]

Description:

[170] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Title from leaf [1]/2r.
Printed in Ulrich Zell's type 2:115G.
GW dates as after 1472.
Colophon (leaf [16]/10v): Ex gestis ro[ma]nor[um] cu[m] plurib[us] applicatis historiis: de v[ir]tutib[us] [et] vitiis mistice ad intellectu[m] tra[n]ssumptis Recollectorii finis est feliciter. Laus deo.
Collation: [1-17¹⁰]: 170 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.1 x 20.1 cm, some leaves with deckle edges.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
PML copy listed under Zell, Division B in Checklist.

Binding:

19th-century gilt-tooled brown hard-grained morocco over wooden boards (29.2 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; all edges gilt.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards (some with white-space decoration), paragraph marks (P-, C-, and g-types), capital strokes, and underlining; all but lombards stop at leaf [9]/5v. Annotations: Few marginal notations in text. Manuscript quire signatures, mostly trimmed. Modern bibliographic notes on rear fly leaf.

Provenance:

Henry Huth (1815-1878), booklabel, Ex Museo Huthii; his sale, Sotheby's, 15 Nov. 1911, pt. 3, lot 3210; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 188 purchased by Quaritch for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned July 1919).

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books