Rethorica divina.

Accession number: 
PML 77699
Author: 
William, of Auvergne, Bishop of Paris, 1180-1249.
Published: 
[Freiburg im Breisgau] : [Kilianus Piscator (Fischer)], [not after 1491]
Description: 
[58] leaves ; 29.5 x 20.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1983.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r): Rethorica Divina de Oratione domini Guilermi Parisien[sis].
Colophon (leaf i6r): Explicit Rethorica divina de oratione domini Guilermi pariensis.
Printed in types 1:180G and 2:83G.
Collation: [1]⁸; a-b⁶ c⁴ d-f⁶ g⁴ h-i⁶: 58 leaves. Quire [1] signed 2-5.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Shares a common paper-stock with Ephrem Syrus, Sermones, Goff E-44, and therefore to be dated accordingly (Sack(Freiburg))
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.7 cm.

Binding: 
Modern black blind-stamped calf over boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks (C-shaped with extended lines), red underlining and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Christie's London, 8 Dec. 1982, lot 20; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Christie's London (via Lathrop C. Harper), Dec. 1982.
Classification: 
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