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Accession number:
PML 75894.1
Published:
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [about 1473]
Description:
[142] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 42 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Gift of Hans P. Kraus, 1979.
Notes:
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit epistola Isidori ivnioris Hispalensis episcopi ad Bravlionem cesar avgvstanvm episcopvm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Mentelin's types 6:112G.
Collation: [1-13¹⁰ 14¹²]: 142 leaves, leaves [1]/1.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcut and schematic diagrams, woodcut map.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.7 x 28.5 cm.
Binding:
Contemporary German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (42 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Schmerzensmann workshop (EBDB w002891, active 1462-1479, likely located in Passau). Manuscript waste pastedowns, from a paper manuscript index to Aquinas's Summa theologica (likely not the printed edition bound-in here). 2 clasps. Manuscript title label.
Variant Title:
Incipit epistola Isidori iunioris Hispalensis episcopi ad Braulionem cesar augustanum episcopum.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication (different hand that the Aquinas), red initials, headlines, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; primary initial in red and green with foliate border decoration (leaf [1]/2r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Oswald Eisentaler, of Schärding, Austria, donation inscription: "Venerabilis dominus Oswaldus Eysentaler Vicarius in Scherding dedit hunc librum monasterio Lambecensis" (Isidore, leaf [1]/1v), to: Lambach (Austria), Benedictines, inscription (front board); Harrison B. Horblit, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, 1947; H.P. Kraus, Inc., cat. 154 (1979), no. 48; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Hans P. Kraus, Dec. 1979. NPM
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