Summa Johannis.

Accession number: 
PML 77111
Author: 
Johannes, von Freiburg, -1314.
Published: 
Magdeburg : Moritz Brandis, 21 September 1491.
Description: 
[158] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 1981.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf a1r): Hir hevet sik an de vor rede disses bokes genomet Summa Johannis. welker de eerwerdige vader lesemester Joha[n]nes va[n] vryborgh p[re]diker ordens. to latine ghemaket un[d] ut deme hillighe[n] decret bocke getoghe[n] hefft. Un[d] va[n] latine in dat dudesche gemaket dorch eine[m] hoch gelerden doctore[m]. geheten broder bartold. dessulve[n] prediker ordens ok me[n]nige stede nomet un[d] allegeret i[n] de[n] geistlike[n] un[d] wertlike[n] rechte. als me[n] hir na vint.
Colophon (leaf A8r): Explicit Su[m]ma Joha[n]nis Translata de latino in vulgare. multum utilis pro habentibus cura[m] animaru[m] clericis simplicibus. Recno[n] [sic] layciz. qui se informare possunt ex eadem in diversis et variis casibus et pu[n]ctis Juriscanonici subtilissimis occurrentibus. Impressaq[ue] in civitate Magdeburgen[sis] Arte Mauricii brandisz. Anno d[omi]ni .M°.cccc°.xci° Finita in vigilia sancti Mauricii.
Printed in Brandis's type 6:160G (headings) and 4:95G (text).
Collation: [1⁸]; a⁸ b-y⁶ z⁸ A⁸: 158 leaves
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut initials.
Bearer type visible on leaf A8r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.3 x 17.9 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [22]/1.

Binding: 
Contemporary interim binding using parchment 13th-century breviary manuscript waste (27.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 3 supports with 2 laced thongs. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Summa confessorum [Low German]

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annoations: No notations in text. Year calculations, 16th century (leaf A8v).

Provenance: 
Unidentified inscription: I.V.C.T. B.H.Z.S. 1683 (front fly leaf verso); Meiningen, Stadt- und Kreisbibliothek "Anna Seghers", stamp: Herzoglicher S. Meiningischer Bibliothek, 19th century (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified shelfmarks: CCXCIX, 15th century (spine label), Inc. 17 (front pastedown and spine label), Inc. 56 (spine label), Inc. 46 (spine label); Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 33, booklabels (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 88; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased 8 April 1981.
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