Hic liber i[n]titulatur de nug[is] curialiu[m] [et] vestigijs ph[ilosoph]o[rum] cui[us] Johannes Salesberiensis Carnote[n]sis ep[iscop]us fuit actor.

Accession number: 
PML 639
Author: 
John, of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, d. 1180.
Published: 
[Brussels] : [Fratres Vitae Communis], [about 1480].
Description: 
[250] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1v.
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated on paper evidence (WILC). HPT dated between 1479 and 1481, and Polain 1486.
Printed in the Fratres Vitae Communis type 1a:100G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹²; 4⁴; 5-24¹⁰ 25⁸ 26⁶]: 250 leaves, leaves [3]/12, [5]/1, and [26]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
The Dialogus linguae et ventris is erroneously attributed here to Johannes Saresberiensis
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.8 cm.

Binding: 
Modern full brown goatskin; rebound after Morgan acquisition, perhaps by Duprez Lahey. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves, retaining original vellum endleaf at rear with manuscript text; decorative endbands; red edges.
Variant Title: 

De nugis curialium

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red lombards, C-type pargraph marks, capital strokes and underlining; primary initials in blue, with red penwork decoration added in books I-III only; red headlines for books I-III only. Annotations: A few marginal notations in text, marginal/interlinear corrections (quire [16] and leaf [22]/10r); profile face drawn in margin (leaf [22]/7r); watermark outlined in pencil (leaf [24]/3r). Contemporary manuscript text, incorrectly attributed to John of Salisbury, "Relatio brevis de vita et passione Thome Cantuariensis per dominum Johannem Salisberiensem...," explicit: "Scriptum ex codice Fratrum de septem Fontibus ubi non habetur titulus. Anno domini M vc xxxiiii [xii?] in decembris," copied from a manuscript, perhaps at the monastery of Maria in Septem-fontium (Windesheim) near Brussels (leaves [26]/5v-rear endleaf 1 verso).

Provenance: 
Leuven (Brabant), Augustinians, Sint-Maartensdaal, inscription: "Est liber hic sancti martini louaniensis" (leaf [13]/5r); Simon de Santander (d. 1791), collection inherited by his nephew: Carlos Antonio de La Serna Santander (1752-1813) and sold, Catalogue des livres de la bibliothèque de feu Don Simon de Santander, vol. II, no. 1585, describing manuscript text at end; Frances Mary Richardson Currer, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), A catalogue of the library collected by Miss Richardson Currer, p. 396; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books