Accession number:
PML 75896.1
Published:
[Mainz] : [Jacob Meydenbach], [approximately 1492]
Description:
[1], ii-lxxxii, [6] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased as the gift of Mrs. Enid A Haupt and Mr. David H. McAlpin, 1979.
Notes:
According to the Histoire littéraire de la France, the author may also be Guillermus Parisiensis, O.P. (d. 1312).
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Meydenbach's types 1:92G and 2:155G.
Signatures: A-N⁶ O⁴ P⁶: 88 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Blind bearer type visible, leaf A1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 13.7 cm.
PML copy previously bound with Valentin von Grünberg, Almanach für Breslau, 1495 ([Leipzig: Gregorius Böttiger (Werman), 1494-95]), ChL 557T, now in broadside box.
Binding:
Contemporary (Polish?) blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns (rear pastedown was previously a fragment of a 1495 boradside almanach for Breslau (Wroclaw) (PML 75896.2/ChL 557T), which suggests a local binding. 1 clasp, missing. Evidence of chain attachment at bottom edge of front board.
Variant Title:
Dyalogus doctissimi viri Guilhermi episcopi Parisiensis de septem sacramentis
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication, contemporary paragraph marks and capital strokes; initials unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Mattheus Sartorius, of Jawor (Poland) inscription: "Sum Matthie Ign[atius] Sartorii Archip[rio]ri Iaroviensis 1663" (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from H.P. Kraus, Inc. as the gift of Mrs. Enid A. Haupt and Mr. David H. McAlpin, Dec. 1979.
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