Epistolae.

Accession number: 
PML 20521
Author: 
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [not after 1469]
Description: 
[224] leaves ; 41 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [1]/1v: Incipiunt capitula libri epistolaru[m] sancti Iheronimi.
Printed in Mentelin's type 2a:112G.
The copy Rés.C431 at Paris BN was bound in 1469 by Johannes Richenbach at Geislingen.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-4⁸; 5-12¹⁰; 13-15¹⁰; 16-19¹⁰; 20-21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23¹⁰]: 224 leaves, leaf [23]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.8 x 29.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [23]/10 (blank). Quire [22] misbound: 2, 3, 8, 4, 5, 1, 6, 7.

Binding: 
19th-century French gilt-tooled red straight-grained morocco over paper boards (41.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Bozérian. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary Lower Rhine (Windesheim) rubrication, red initials, rubrics (with manuscript guides), and capital strokes; primary initial in red and blue with penwork decoration (leaf [1]/2r). Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout text, including textual corrections in several hands, nota bene marks, and manicules. Alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures at bottom center and right edges.

Provenance: 
Grünberg (Hesse), Brothers of St. Anthony, "Pro [conven]tu Groneburgen[sis]," 15th century (leaf [1]/1r); Limburg an der Lahn (Hesse), Observant Francsicans, inscription: "Bibliothecae FF. Mino[rum] reg. obser. Limpurgi," 16th/17th century (leaf [1]/1r); Montabaur (Rhineland-Palatinate), Franciscans, inscription: "Nunc incoporatur Bibliothecae ffr[atru]m Min. S. Th. conventu Monthab. 1770" (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified shelfmar: Cl. 4. col. 1 (leaf [1]/1r); David Stewart Ker, his sale, Christie's, 1 Feb. or 15 June 1848, lot 766; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Gabriel Wells, 1919.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books