Accession number:
PML 79832
Published:
[Lyons] : [Johann Neumeister], [approximately 1485]
Description:
[186] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1989.
Notes:
Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Colophon reproduced unchanged from Caesaris edition of 1478 (ISTC im00176760), see CIBN M-95; cf. Veyrin-Forrer(Cesaris) 26.
Printed in Neumeister's type 6:98G (4:99G in BMC). Claudin and Parguez assign to Balsarin, about 1482.
Signatures: [1]⁸; a-r⁸ [curled-r]⁸ [long-s]⁸ s-t⁸ u¹⁰: 186 leaves. Signed in quarto: first and third leaves signed i and ii respectively; leaf u5 signed uiii.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.4 x 12.4 cm.
Binding:
18th-century(?) marbled paper over linen over pasteboards (20.5 x 13.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns.
Variant Title:
Epistolarum formule
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Inscription: "Sti Petri Cellensis," 17th century (leaf [1]/2r), early foliation and foliation of tabula in quire [1]. Bottom margin cut away (leaf [long-s]8v).
Provenance:
Gabriel Symerel of Moustiers (Alpes-de-Haute-Provence), inscriptions (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.K. Schreiber on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, Sept. 1989.
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