Reuerendi et optimi patris d[omin]o Iacobi de Valentia christopolitani ep[iscop]i: ad reu[er]endissimu[m] i[n] [christ]o p[at]re[m] et dominu[m] .D[ominum]. Rodericu[m] Boria cardinale[m] Vale[n]tinu[m] ep[iscopu]m Portuense[m] et Carthaginense[m]: sancte rom[a]ne eccl[es]ie viceca[n]cellariu[m] dignissimu[m] in] libros ps[almorum] D[avi]d p[re]factio.

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Accession number: 
PML 77119-20
Author: 
Pérez de Valencia, Jaime, 1408-1490.
Published: 
[Valencia] : [Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba and Gabriel Luis de Arinyo], .vi. Septembris. Anni dominni .Millesimi Quadringentesimi Octoagesimiquarti [6 September 1484].
Description: 
[399] leaves ; 36 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased as the gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, 1981.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf a1v.
Imprint from colophon, leaf ³a10v: Explicit tabula quasi de omni materia reperta in libro psalmo[rum] secundum expositione[m] nouiter factam per .R.D. Iacobum perec de Valencia Ep[iscopu]m cristopolitatum. simul cum expositione impressa. .vi. Septe[m]bris. Anni d[omin]ni .Millesimi Quadringe[n]tesimi Octoagesimiquarti.
Printed in Fernández and Luis's types 3:92G and 4:180G.
Signatures: a⁸ b¹⁰ c⁸; a-v⁸ x⁸(4+1: "crucifixorum suorum") y-z⁸; aa-ii⁸ ll⁸ mm⁶; A-I⁸ L⁸ M¹⁰; a¹²: 399 leaves, leaves M10, ³a11-12 blanks.
Paper format: Median folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions, vol. I: 34 x 24.2 cm; vol. II: 34.5 x 24.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: ³a12 (blank).

Binding: 
Contemporary Spanish (Valencia?) blind-stamped goatskin over wooden boards (36 x 24.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands. 2 clasps on each volume, 3 partially missing.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary foliation and marginal notations, keywords, and textual additions throughout (vol. I only). Manuscript titles on bottom edges of both vols.

Provenance: 
Louis Alexandre de Bourbon (1678-1737), comte de Toulouse, bookplate (vol. I, front pastedown); unidentified duc de Lorraine or Lorraine-Guise, bookplate (vol. II, front pastedown); H.P. Kraus, collation and bibliographic notations, July 1960 (vol. I, rear pastedown); Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. [unnumbered], booklabels (front pastedowns, both vols.), his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 183; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Miss Julia P. Wightman, April 1981.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Genres: 
Mudéjar bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books