Accession number:
PML 22093
Published:
[Blaubeuren] : [Conrad Mancz], [about 1475]
Description:
[66] leaves ; 26 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr. 1923.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit epistola beati Euseby ad damasiu[m] portunense[m] ep[iscopu]m [et] ad Theodomu[m] senatorum romanu[m] de morte gloriosi hieronimi doctoris eximy.
Printed in Mancz's type 1:120G.
Polain dates about 1477.
Collation: [1-7⁸ 8¹⁰]: 66 leaves, leaf [8]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.6 x 18.1 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [8]/10 (blank).
Binding:
Modern gilt-stamped full brown calf over paper boards (26.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 3 supports, for Becher; rebacked. Blue silk doublures and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Epistola beati Eusebij ad Damasium portuensem episcopum et ad Theodosium senatorem romanum de morte gloriosi Hieronimi doctoris eximij
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations in text, some modern.
Provenance:
[Munich, Court Library, duplicate inscription, erased (leaf [1]/1r)?;] Karl (Carolus) Becher (d. 1911), binding; [his sale, Boerner, Aukt. 84, 14 May 1906]; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Davis & Orioli, Sept. 1923.
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