Accession number:
PML 37879
Published:
[Ulm] : [Conrad Dinckmut], [approximately 1488]
Description:
[4], ccii leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1943.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf a1r): Hie hebt sich an die auβlegung Humberti. deβ hohen lerers. der etwen ain gemainer maister gewesen ist über den gantzen prediger orden über sant Augustins regel...
Printed in Dinckmut's types 3:147G and 4:121G.
Collation: [1⁴]; a-z⁸ /⁸ [dot]¹⁰: 206 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
For uncorrected proof leaves used as waste in bindings, see Amelung, Frühdruck I 102 & Abb. 147, 149.
Current research suggests the Dominican Georg Falder-Pistoris (d. 29 Dec. 1452) or Johannes Meyer (d. 20 July 1485) as possible translators (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.3 cm.
Binding:
Early 20th-century laced parchment over stiff boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by K. Ebert, Munich. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations.
Provenance:
Buxheim (Bavaria), Carthusians, inscription: "Cartusia Buxiae" (leaf [1]/1r) and stamp (leaf a1r); [Buxheim sale, Carl Förster'sche Kunstauktion (Munich), Auk. XXX (Abt. ii), 20 Sept. 1883?]; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Davis & Orioli, Dec. 1943.
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