Summa collectionum sive co[m]muniloquiu[m].

Accession number: 
PML 138
Author: 
Johannes Gallensis.
Published: 
Augsburg : Anton Sorg, 1475.
Description: 
[206] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Cum collectionis huius que potest dici summa collectionum sive co[m]muniloquiu[m] sint septem partes...
Colophon (leaf [20]/8r): Vigore motoris p[ri]mi immobilis: nulla[m] magnitudine[m] habentis explicit. Gallensis summa veustissima atq[ue] lepidissima: su[m]ma collectionu[m] alio nomi[n]e sive co[m]muniloquiu[m] vocitata. dogmatu[m] varios microcosmi gradus ac stat[us] respicientium co[m]plexiva. Ab Anthonio Sorg opidanu[m] augustinese[m]: ob die gloriam: amplioremq[ue] ecclesie fructifacato[ru]m artificialiter effigiata. Legis gratie anno .M.CCCC.lxxv. Laus summo p[ri]ncipi: eiusq[ue] gl[ori]ose genitrici.
Printed in sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: 1¹⁰(+4*) 2-6¹⁰ 7-12⁸/¹⁰ 13¹⁰ 14-19¹⁰/⁸ 20⁸(+6*); 21¹⁰ 22⁸]: 206 leaves, leaf [1]/1 and [22]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.4 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [22]/8 (blank).

Binding: 
18th-/19th-century stiff parchment from a reused music manuscript (30 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; edges colored red.
Variant Title: 

Communiloquium

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, printed initials painted red, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining; stops after quire [11]. Annotations: Contempoary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signature in bottom right of rectos. Contemporary/16th-century title inscription (leaf [1]/1r). Few 16th/17th-century marginal notations.

Provenance: 
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and inscription (front fly leaf recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: o/-/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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