[Postilla super totam Bibliam].

Accession number:

PML 33628

Author:

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349.

Published:

Rome : Conradus Sweynheym and Arnoldus Pannartz, 1471-1472.

Description:

[452], [452], [402], [234], and [292] leaves ; 32 x 24 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1937.

Notes:

Colophon (Part V, leaf H10r): Aspicis illustris lector quincunq[ue] libellos / Si cupis artificum nomina nosse: lege. / Aspera ridebis cognomina teutona: forsan / Mitiget ars musis inscia verba virum / Co[n]radus Suueynheym Arnoldus Pa[n]nartzq[ue] magistri / Rome impresserunt talia multa simul. In domo Petri de Maximis M.CCCC.LXXII. die .XIII. Martii.
Edited by Johannes Andreas, bishop of Aleria.
In five parts; dated: I) 18 Nov. 1471; II) 26 May 1472; III) 14 Jan. 1472; IV) [undated]; V) 13 Mar. 1472 (Prefatory letter dated 20 Mar. 1472).
Paper format: Royal folio
Part I: Genesis-Paralipomena; Part II: Esdras-Ecclesiasticus; Part III: Isaias-Machabaei; Part IV: Evangelia; Part V: Epistula Pauli-Apocalypsis.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.6 x 23.2 cm, heavily trimmed.
PML has Part V only, Epistula Pauli to Apocalypsis.
Printed in type 2:115R.
Title from ISTC.

Binding:

16th/17th-century(?) Italian slotted parchment over paper boards (32 x 24 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Manuscript title on top board: Nicolai de lira super testamentum novum.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Watermark: leaf 12. Crossbow inside circle.
Hand decoration: Illuminated white vine border with armorial in bottom margin, heavily trimmed abrading armorial (leaf [b]1r); alternating red and blue initials. Annotations: Headlines and sporadic contemporary marginal notations, mainly in Hebrews. Inscription: Raimundo lullo (front fly leaf).

Provenance:

Frater Marinus Angelonus de Colle, inscriptions: "Hunc librum emi ego frater Marinus Angelonus de Colle a quondam de Ariello seu Agello per manum Doctoris Julij Cesaris Alesandrini de Colle, dum concionabam annis pretertisi 1619 in dicta terra Collis mea patria in qua natus sum" and "Ad usum fratris [??] Marini Angeloni de Colle," 17th century (leaves a2v and b1r); unidentified shelf mark in black ink written vertically: I F Y, 17th/18th century (spine label and leaf a2v); E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., with typed description pasted to rear pastedown; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt, Feb. 1937.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illumination

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books