Incipit tabula vocalis sup[er] Summa[m] p[re]dicantium fratris ioha[n]nis d[e] Bromyard ordinis fratrum p[re]dicatorum.

Accession number:

PML 23554

Author:

Johannes de Bromyard.

Published:

Nurenbergk : per Anthonium Koberger, .M.cccclxxxv. iii. kalendas. Julij [29 June 1485].

Description:

[430] leaves ; 42.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1926.

Notes:

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit tabula vocalis sup[er] Summa[m] p[re]dicantium fratris ioha[n]nis d[e] Bromyard ordinis fratrum p[re]dicatorum.
Textual incipit, leaf [4]/1r: Doctissimi viri fratris Joha[n]nis de Bromyard: ordinis predicatorum: in Summam predicantium: op[us] vtiq[uam] co[m]me[n]datissimu[m].
Imprint from colophon, leaf [54]/6v: Finit opus p[er]utile cura[m] a[n]i[m]a[rum] gere[n]tib[us]. p[er] venerabile[m] deuoto[m] Joha[n]ne[m] Bromyard sancti Dominici sectatore[m] p[ro]fessum: Su[m]ma p[re]dicantiu[m] vocitatu[m]. per Anthoniu[m] koberger incole Nurenbergk q[uam] diligent[em] sic effigiatu[m]. Anno incarnate deitat[is] .M.cccclxxxv. iii. k[a]l[enda]s. Julij.
Printed in Koberger's types 7:83G and 9:165G.
Collation: [1-3⁸; 4-12⁸ 13⁶ 14-37⁸ 38¹⁰ 39-53⁸ 54⁶]: 430 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.5 x 28 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (42 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports, probably bound by Franz Staindorffer in Nuremberg (EBDB w000312/Kyriss 65, active 1474-1486) or the Ornamentale Blüte I workshop (also known as Böhmischer Meiste

Variant Title:

Summam predicantium

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary German (Nuremberg, Koberger shop?) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and red paragraph marks; primary initial illuminated with blind-stamped gold (leaf [4]/1r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript signatures visible on some leaves.

Provenance:

Opava (Czech Republic), convent of St. Barbara, Francsicans, donation inscription from Nicolas Hertwyck of Esztergom, 25 May 1539: "Donatus est liber iste [Loco] düre(?) barbare extra mürüs [muros?] Oppaüie per fratrem nicolaüm Herwyck Commendaterem olim Oppaüie Apud Sanctum Johannem. Nunc Vero Preceptorem Domüs Strigoniensis: Anno A Christo nato M 1539 Die Vigesimaquinta Menses Mai" (leaf [1]/1r) and "Pro Conventu S. Barbarae Virgo et Martyri Oppauiae Fr[atr]um Min[orum] S. Francsicsi Refo" (leaf [1]/2r); Bundesdenkmalamt (unidentified, probably Austria), abraded stamp (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, April 1926.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books