Sermones d[omi]nicales p[er] totu[m] annu[m].

Accession number:

PML 78477

Author:

Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [C.W.], [not after 1473]

Description:

[336] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Acquisitions Fund in memory of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Notes:

Author and title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): "Incipiunt sermones d[omi]nicales p[er] totu[m] annu[m]. [com]pilati p[er] fratrem jacobu[m] voragine de ordine fr[atre]m p[re]dicatorum."
Printed with type 1:110G of the anonymous Strassburg printer "C. W., civis Argentinensis," see BMC I 81. The printer has been identified tentatively as Clas Wencker or Conrad Wolfach.
Copy at Uppsala has rubricator's date 1473, see Collijn, Katalog der Inkunabeln der Kgl. Universitäts-Bibliothek zu Uppsala, 784.
Collation: [1-15¹⁰ 16-17⁸; 18-27¹⁰ 28-29¹²; 30-32¹⁰ 33-34⁸]: 336 leaves, leaf [34]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 21.4 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary blind-tooled leather (sheep?) over wooden boards (30.2 x 21.5 cm), sewn on three double supports by the Weihenstephan Benedictine Abbey, 1466-1476 (EBDB w002276); 2 clasps, corner, and center bosses wanting. Plain paper pastedowns and contemporary paper front fly leaf; plaited leather endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated: red lombards, some tituli, capital strokes, and brackets; lombards on leaf [1]/1r with red flourishing. Annotations: Marginal annotations dividing sermons and manicules. Contemporary inscriptions on front pastedown and fly leaf regarding sermons in collection. Late sixteenth/seventeenth-century headlines and pagination. Fifteenth-century quire numeration on first folio.

Provenance:

[Weihenstephan Abbey (Bavaria), binding]; Christoph Weilhamer (d. 1597), ex libris inscription (first fly recto); removed bookplate from front pastedown (14x8.7cm); Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl; his sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 117; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bloomsbury (via L.C. Harper), 1985.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books