Comme[n]tariu[m] iohannis episcopi Consta[n]tinopolita[n]i cognome[n]to Crisostomi in epistolam sancti pauli apostoli ad hebreos.

Accession number: 
PML 24148
Author: 
John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.
Published: 
[Urach] : [Conrad Fyner], [not after July 1485]
Description: 
[108] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1926.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Incipit Comme[n]tariu[m] iohannis episcopi Consta[n]tinopolita[n]i cognome[n]to Crisostomi in epistolam sancti pauli apostoli ad hebreos. Exnothis editum post eius obitum a Co[n]stantino presbitero Anthiocheno Et translatum de greco i[n] latinum a Muciano scolastico.
Explicit (leaf [14]/6v): Explicit Omelia .xxxiiii. Et per consequens totalis co[m]mentatio sancti Johannis episcopi Co[n]stantinopolitani cognomento Crisostomi in epistolam beati Pauli apostoli ad hebreos.
Printed in Fyner's types 4:180G, 120bG, and 5:96cG.
Ascribed by Proctor to Esslingen, by BMC to Urach.
The Olmütz copy has the rubricator's date July 1485.
Collation: [1-12⁸ 13-14⁶]: 108 leaves. First 3 or 2 leaves of each quire signed in successive numerals: 1 starts on leaf [1]/2r.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.5 cm.

Binding: 
Modern half parchment with decorative paper sides over paper boards (29 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; marbled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations, 16th century. 2 unidentified notes on the number of leaves in the book, 16th century (leaf [14]/6v).

Provenance: 
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Sept. 1926.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
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Half bindings (Binding)
Paste papers (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books