Omelie .lxxxvii. Beati Joha[n]nis Chrisostomi sup[er] eva[n]gelio Joha[n]nis.

Accession number:

PML 79875

Author:

John Chrysostom, Saint, -407.

Published:

Rome : [Georgius Lauer], 29 October 1470.

Description:

[280] leaves ; 31.5 x 23 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1989.

Notes:

Title from colophon.
Colophon (leaf [29]/8r): Omelie .lxxxvii. Beati Joha[n]nis Chrisostomi sup[er] eva[n]gelio Joha[n]nis Rome in .S. Eusebius monasterio scripte & dilige[n]ter correcte: Anno d[omi]ni .M.CCCC.LXX. die Lune .xxix. Mensis Octobris. Po[n]ti .S. in [Christ]o p[at]ris ac d[omi]ni nostri d[omi]ni Pauli divina p[ro]videntia Pape secu[n]di: Anno eius septimo: Expliciunt. Deo laus.
Printed in type 1:128R.
Collation: [1-6¹⁰ 7-8⁸ 9-12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14-16¹⁰ 17-18⁸ 19-27¹⁰ 28¹² 29⁸]: 280 leaves, leaves [1]/1-2 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Translated by Franciscus Griffolinus (Aretinus).
For variants see Hillard.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 21.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1-2 (blanks).

Binding:

Modern full morocco in wood grain pattern over paper boards (31.5 x 23 cm), sewn on 5 supports by M. Schaefer for Gomez de la Cortina. Pink silk doublures and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges. 2 ties wanting.

Variant Title:

Homiliae super Johannem

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Joachim Gomez de la Cortina (1808-1868), marqués de Morante, gilt armorial (front doublure); his sale, Paris, 21 Feb. 1872, lot 38; Sir Robert Alder Chermside (1787-1860), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf verso); his sale, Puttick & Simpson, 23 Nov. 1874; St. Bride Foundation, Typographical Library, stamp (front fly leaf verso); [St. Bride sale, Hodgson's, 6 March 1952?]; Arthur Wilmer Lissauer (1888-1973), book label (front fly leaf verso); Swann Galleries, 19 Oct. 1898, lot 135, to Morgan via Harper; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Oct. 1989.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

See more information »

Genres:

Incunabula

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books