Liber expositori[us] totius biblie ac alioru[m] qui i[n] ecclesia recitant[ur] qui ma[m]motrectus appelat[ur]...

Accession number:

PML 46

Author:

Marchesinus, Johannes.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [Georg Husner], [about 1478-1479]

Description:

[254] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from colophon (leaf [32]/6r): "Liber expositori[us] totius biblie. ac alioru[m] qui i[n] ecclesia recitant[ur]. qui ma[m]motrectus appelat[ur] feliciter explicit."
Printed in Husner's type 2:110G.
Date based on watermark, see Ziesche and Schnitger, "Datierung des Heldenbuchs aus der Untersuchung seiner Papier," in Heldenbuch: nach dem ältesten Druck in Abbildung (Göppingen: Kümmerle, 1987), II: 176, no. 19. Goff dates as about 1476.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-5¹⁰ 6-11⁸ 12-13⁶ 14-31⁸ 32⁶]: 254 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Tabula on leaves [1]/2r-4v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20.6 cm.

Binding:

19th-century black morocco with gilt turn-ins over wooden boards (30 x 22.5cm) by Slunson & Co. Gilt title on spine. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Roman numeral foliation in top center margin (leaves [2]/1r-[3]/5r only). Annotations: Contemporary title and ownership inscriptions, washed (leaf [1]/1r). Bookseller inscription(?), "H.K. Aug. 7. 1895." (front pastedown).

Provenance:

Unidentified signature, "Jo: [???]" (leaf [1]/1r); auction lot description, nineteenth-century (front pastedown); William Morris, Kelmscott House, Hammersmith (1834-1896), booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Bookplates (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books