Accession number:
PML 44866.3
Published:
[Seville] : [Stanislaus Polonus], [approximately 1500]
Description:
[6] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1953.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Explicit, leaf a6v: Co[m]posuit magister petr[us] dagui pntes breves distinctiones rome a[n]no d[omi]ni .M.CCCC. octuagesimosexto. die vero decima decembris.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 14.8 cm.
Binding:
16th-century (early 1500s) German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (22 x 16 cm), sewn on 2 bands. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: German rubrication (same throughout volume), alternating red and blue initials, red capital strokes and underlining, dated 1500 (leaf b9v of Janua artis). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contempoary foliation, by Pol(?) (with more modern version of 4, 5, and 7 than typically seen in 15th century).
Provenance:
Nicolaus Pol (about 1470-1532), annotations throughout first, second, and fourth works in volume and contents list (front pastedown); unidentified shelfmark: S (fore edge); Lathrop C. Harper, cat. 156 (Oct. 1928), no. 485; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, June 1953.
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