Accession number:
PML 125739
Published:
Venice : Christophorus Arnoldus, [not after 1477]
Description:
[320] leaves ; 30 x 20 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf D8r): Sac[re] r[e]fert celebris Ricardi dogmata cod[e]x / Quem genuit mediavilla decora viru[m]. / Talibus hu[n]c ve[n]iens arnolda ab origi[n]e fixit / Christoforus veneta clar[us] i[n] urbe notis.
Printed in types 2:79G and 3:150G.
Collation: aa⁸ bb¹⁰ cc⁸; a-z¹⁰ [et]¹⁰ [con]¹⁰ [rum]¹⁰ A¹⁰ B-D⁸: 320 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Dated by CIBN. Goff dates about 1476-78.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.2 cm.
Checklist: "PML 16206 sold, Swann, 25 Feb. 2000, replaced by PML 125739 (JPW 7227)."
Binding:
Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (30 x 20 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and manuscript waste as quire guards; plain endbands. 2 clasps. Paper title label on top board and title label and shelf mark labels on spine.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards, red capital strokes and running headlines. Annotations: No notations in text. Fore edge and bottom edge manuscript title: "Rich 4."
Provenance:
Sultzbach, unidentified inscription: "M[a]g[ist]ri Sultzbache[n]sis," 15th/16th century (front pastedown); Bolzano, Franciscans, inscription: "Pro Conventu FF. Min: Ref: Teanus: Bulzan:," 17th century (leaf aa2r); unidentified (Bolzano?) shelf mark: Z 3[??] (spine label); G.E.M. 1940, unidentified inscription (leaf aa1r); unidentified sale catalogue description (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
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