Moraliu[m] sup[er] Job.

Accession number:

PML 19615

Author:

Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.

Published:

Venice : Reynaldus de Novimagio, Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo octuagesimo quartodecimo Junii [14 June 1480].

Description:

[348] leaves ; 34 x 23.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1913.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf c2r): Epistola beati Gregorii pape ad Leandru[m] ep[istole]m in libros moraliu[m] sup[er] Job.
Colophon (leaf I4v): Expletu[m] est opus istud Moraliu[m] beati Gregroii pape diligentissme correctu[m] [et] emendatum per .d. Bartholomeum Cremon[ensis]. canonicu[m] regularem Impressu[m] Venetiis p[er] Reynaldum de Novimagio Teoteutonicu[m] Anno domini Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo octuagesimo quartodecimo Junii. preside[n]te venetiis Inclyto duce Joanne Mozenigo.
Printed in types 2:150G and 3:84G.
Collation: a-b⁸ c¹⁰ d⁸ e-h¹⁰ i⁸ k¹⁰ l-q⁸ [cursiv-r] r-v u-z¹⁰ [et]⁸ [con] [rum]¹⁰ A⁸ B¹⁰ C⁸ D-G¹⁰ H⁸ I⁶: 348 leaves, leaves b8, c1 and I6 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Bartholomaeus Cremonensis, with additions by Dominicus de Dominicis.
Printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.7 x 22.5 cm.

Binding:

Modern quarter black goatskin with paper sides, by Duprez-Lahey.

Variant Title:

Expositio in Job

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. A few lines and x's in margins.

Provenance:

Unidentified shelf mark, in brown ink: Z 50, 16th century (leaf I5v) and S. 6. N. 25., 17th/18th century (front pastedown); Michele Cavaleri (b. 1813?), Museo Cavaleri stamp, abraded (leaf a2r); unidentified (probably Martini?) English sale catalogue description, no. 78 (rear pastedown); Giuseppe Martini, collation note (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Martini, Feb. 1913.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books