De morali lepra.

Accession number:

PML 75838.2

Author:

Nider, Johannes, approximately 1380-1438.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [C.W.], [not after 1471]

Description:

[76] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in memory of Commander Conrad Alexander Bühler, 1979.

Notes:

Assigned to C.W. (sometimes identified tentatively as Clas Wencker or Conrad Wolfach) by Needham, "Four Strasburg Incunables." Formerly attributed to Koberger, 1471 by Hain; cf BMC II 409 doubting the ascription to Koberger.
Printed in C.W.'s type 1:110G.
Copy in München BSB (2 Inc.s.a. 914/1) has a buyer's incription with the date 1471.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6-7⁸ 8¹⁰]: 76 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 20.4 cm.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Northeastern French/Flemish illumianted initial (leaf [1]/1r), red and blue lombards and paragraph marks (C-type), red capital strokes (same in PML 75838.1); some capital strokes like tiny paragraph marks. Headlines with Roman numeral for book number and "M A" (materia?) cypher. Ink ruling in margins for notes. Annotations: A few textual corrections and "Nota" cypher.

Provenance:

Contemporary inscription, abraded ("Ex [?] [?]Clarolensis contra [?]"), with shelf mark(?) D (leaf [1]/1r of Manuale); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in memory of Commander Conrad Alexander Bühler from Lathrop C. Harper, March 1979.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Department:

Printed Books