[A]D euidentiam maiore[m] eorum que sequu[n]t[ur] pono hic tabula[m] tituloru[m] questionu[m] et expositionum omniu[m] que sequu[n]tur.

Accession number: 
PML 78481
Author: 
Parentinis, Bernardus de, active 14th century.
Published: 
Cesarauguste : [Heinrich Botel and Johann Planck], Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimooctauo die sextadecima Junii [16 June 1478].
Description: 
[7], i-xciii, [1] (with errors) leaves ; 28.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore S. Hope in memory of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1v.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [12]/8r: Finitur liber solempnis mxi[m]eq[ue] virtutis: qui ut supra intitulatur liber de expositione uel de declaratione misse: vbi om[n]ia que in missa tractantur p[er] rationes lucide declarant[ur] uti in tabula breuiter et manifeste exprimit[ur]: qui ob petit[i]one[m] circa sacra existe[n]tia exitationem: necno[n] ob paucitatem tractatuu[m] eoru[n]dem: et ut fiosculi huius operis que latent elucesca[n]t: Cesarauguste suis subordiantionibus: suasq[ue] manu porrecta adiutrice: dei amore fecit imprimi. Sub anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimooctauo die sextadecima Junii.
Printed in Botel and Planck's type 1:85G.
Printer also identified as Printer of Parentinis (GW).
Collation: [1⁶ 2¹⁰ 3-5⁸ 6-7¹⁰ 8-9⁸ 10¹⁰ 11-12⁸]: 102 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [7]/1 or [7]/2, unclear from collation.
PML copy with multiple leaves remargined at fore or bottom edge.

Binding: 
20th-century full red goatskin, gold and blind tooled in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by A. Palomino. Decorative paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in at least 2 hands/inks, primarily near beginning of text. Unidentified Catalan inscriptions, including heavily abraded inscriptions (leaf [1]/1r), "Fandate [p?]nery" (leaf [12]/8r), and "As [??]at da mosen lafaf[?]ses lanafaciat ara es dal capbreu / Es del Capbreu" (leaves [12]/8v).

Provenance: 
Gabriel Cafases(?), inscription, 15th/16th century (leaf [1]/1r); Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl (d. ca. 1960?), of Achstetten, his sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 199 to Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. for: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore S. Hope in memory of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, Nov. 1985.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Retrospective bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books