[Epistolae].

Accession number: 
PML 19001, 51241
Author: 
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Published: 
[Rome] : [Sixtus Riessinger], [not after 1470]
Description: 
[358, 452] leaves ; 34-35 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
PML 19001 (vol. I) purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (part II, leaf [46]/11r): Finis secundi voluminis epistolarum beatissimi Hieronymi. Veritas vincit. .IA.RV.
Printed in Riessinger's type 1:81R.
On the ascription to Riessinger at Rome, see BMC IV ix-x. On J.L. Sharpe's view that this should be dated about 1466-67 see D.E. Rhodes in The Library, 6th series, 5 (1983), pp. 68-71, where a date of not after 1467 is suggested. Dated not after 1470 in Goff. Paul Needham, "Sixtus Riessinger's Edition of 'Epistolae Hieronymi' (GW 12420): circa (not after) 1470," La Bibliofilía 116 (2014): 17-43 argues conclusively for the not after 1470 dating.
In two parts.
Collation, part I: [1¹⁴ 2¹⁰; 3-19¹⁰ 20¹² 21-36¹⁰ 37⁸; ]: 358 leaves, [1]/1-2, [2]/9-10, and [37]/6-8 blank; part II: [1¹⁴; 2¹² 3-25¹⁰ 26⁸ 27-45¹⁰ 46¹²]: 452 leaves, leaves [1]/1-2 and [1]/10-14 and [46]/12 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Theodorus Lelius. Preliminary text: Aristeas, De lxx interpretibus (translated by Matthias Palmerius).
PML copy leaf dimensions: vol. I (PML 19001): 32.9 x 22.1 cm; vol. II (PML 51241): 33.7 x 22.5 cm
PML copy missing 16 leaves: vol. I, leaves [1]/1-2 (blanks) and vol. II, leaves [1]/1-14. Vol. I formerly lacked leaves [13]/10 and [14]/2-10, which were replaced from another copy (leaves are narrower and with a yellow foredge). Vol. II, leaves [23]/5-6 are misbound after leaf [11]/2.
Single leaves of this edition were distributed to accompany copies of A Leaf from the letters of St. Jerome ... with an historical essay by Jeremy Duquesnay Adams and a bibliographical essay by John L. Sharpe III; edited by Bennett Gilbert (Los Angeles, London, 1981).

Binding: 
Vol. I: Modern half leather over 15th-century wooden boards (34 x 23.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 2 clasps wanting.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Vol. I: Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Minimal foliation and foliation of tabula.
Vol. II: Hand decoration: Contemporary Roman white vine illumination with gold initials, oxidized portrait of Jerome (leaf [2]/1r); rubricated, alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: Rubricator's incipit (leaf [2]/1r); no marginal notations in text. Modern alpha-numeric quire signatures.

Provenance: 
Vol. I: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, June 1909.
Classification: 
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