Accession number:
PML 21123.1
Published:
[Brussels] : [Fratres Vitae Communis], [about 1476-1477].
Description:
[132] leaves ; 29 x 22 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Epistola beati gregorii pape de expositione ezechielis ad marianum episcopu[m].
Colophon (leaf [13]/12r): Expliciu[n]t omelie gregorii pape in ezechielem prophetam.
Printed in type 1a:100G.
Collation: [1-12¹⁰ 13¹²]: 132 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.4 x 21.1 cm
Binding:
Contemporary blind-filleted calf over wooden boards (29 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports, likely bound at the Marienburg Carthusian monastery at Dülmen (Werkstatt Weddern Kartäuserkloster or Kartause Marienburg, EBDB w002359). Vellum pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves. 2 clasps, wanting.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: Expositio super Ezechielem
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes (different hand than PML 21123.2). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures and list of contents on front pastedown. Contemporary inscription: g[re]g[orii] sup[er] ezechiele[m] (leaf [13]/12v).
Provenance:
Dülmen (North Rhine-Westphalia), Carthusian monastery, St. Mary (Marienburg), ownership inscription: Liber Carthusianoru[m] domus castri maris p[ro]pe dulmania[m], and shelf mark: C 87 (front pastedown and spine label) and binding; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown) and price code: [lambda delta], purchased at Sotheby's, "first day of season," Oct. 1897 (front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3220 to Quaritch (with collation inscription, 6 Dec. 1917, rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Aug. 1920.
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