Janua artis.

Accession number:

PML 44866.1

Author:

Gui, Petrus de.

Published:

Impressum Hispali [i.e. Seville] : [Stanislaus Polonus], anno millesimo quingentesimo. die vigestimo sexto mensis iunii [26 June 1500].

Description:

[18] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1953.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
The author is also catalogued as Dagui or Degui, and his Janua as a work of Lull himself.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b9v: Impressum hispali anno millesimo quingentesimo. die vigestimo sexto mensis iunii.
Printed in Polonus's types 4:144R and 7:112R.
Signatures: a⁸ b¹⁰: 18 leaves, leaf b10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Woodcut "Prima Causa," a diagram of Creation to Crucifixion, leaf a1v.
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, likely for Pol. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges. 2 clasps, missing.

Variant Title:

Janua artis Raymundi Lulli

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: Contemporary marginal notations by Pol moderately throughout (first, second, and fourth works in volume). 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.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books