Liber de miseria humane condic[i]onis.

Accession number:

PML 22592

Author:

Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216.

Published:

[Germany (Blaubeuren?)] : [Printer of Lotharius (H 10209) (Conrad Mancz?)], [probably before 1474]

Description:

[36] leaves ; 28 x 20.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1925.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Liber de miseria humane condic[i]onis. Lotarii dyaconi sancto[rum] Sergi et Bachi cardinalis qui postea Innocentius terci[us] appelatus e[st]. Anno d[omi]ni Mccccxlviii.
Explicit (leaf [4]/6r): Explicit liber de miseria conditionis humane.
Printed in type 1:125/129G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁶]: 36 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Amelung (Frühdruck I, p.XVII) identifies the printer tentatively as Conrad Mancz. For discussion of the date, see BMC.
Bearer type on leaf [4]/6r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.4 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary German (Augsburg?) quarter blind-stamped pigskin over beech boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper fly leaves and manuscript waste reinforcements; plain endbands.

Variant Title:

De miseria humanae conditionis

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, lombards on leaves [1]/1v-[1]/2r only. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Modern pencil foliation starting at 21, suggesting this was previously bound with another work, not lost.

Provenance:

Unidentified inscription, illegible/bleached (leaf [1]/1r); Ernest Heinemann, Offenbach am Main, bookseller, Collection à vendre de monumens typographiques et autres ouvrages rares (1840), no. 111b, description pasted to rear board, including reference to Jacobus de Clusa, De animabus (s.l. & a.) bound before; unidentified English sale catalogue description pasted to rear board (Harper?); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathorp C. Harper, March 1925.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books