Religiosissimi uiri Fr[at]ris Petri de Bergomo, o[r]dinis p[re]dicator[um] sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris eximii sup[er] om[n]ia op[er]a diuini doctoris Thome Aquinatis tabula felicit[er] i[n]cipit.

Accession number: 
PML 22815
Author: 
Pietro, da Bergamo, -1482.
Published: 
Bononie : Ex officina Baldaseris Azoguidi, ciuis Bononiensis, anno D[omi]ni 1473, die u[n]decimo martii.
Description: 
[269] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1925.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [28]/6v.
Printed in Azoguidus's type 2:99R.
Signatures: [1-12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14⁴ 15-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22¹²(12+1*: Rep[re]sentat[i]o i[n] spec[u]lo) 23-26¹⁰ 27⁸ 28⁶; 29²]: 270 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [29]/2 blank. In some copies, the final quire collates as [28⁶(6+1*)], 268 leaves total.
Paper format: Chancery folio
One column, 43-44 lines. Capital spaces.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 21.3 cm.
PML copy with conjugate blank of leaf [22]/12+1* bound before [22]/1.

Binding: 
Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over partially-bevelled wooden boards (30 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by the Konrad Dinckmut bindery in Ulm (EBDB w000070/Kyriss 126, active ca. 1470-1506). Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands. 5 cardinal's hat bosses on each board. 2 post catches on top board, clasps missing.
Variant Title: 

Religiosissimi viri Fratris Petri de Bergomo, ordinis predicatorum sacre theologie professoris eximii super omnia opera divini doctoris Thome Aquinatis tabula feliciter incipit

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: German rubricated, red initials, capital strokes, headlines, and marginal keywords. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notes throughout. Numeric and alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures.

Provenance: 
Unidentified German (monastic?) library title label (top board) and shelf marks: G (or 6, label on top board), R.V. N.26 (spine), F 8 (front pastedown, Kloss?) and C 128 (front fly leaf, similar to Inglis inscriptions); Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front fly leaf recto); Kloss sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 673; Bernard Quaritch, collation statement by H. Gosden, 31 July 1871 (front fly leaf); William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front fly leaf); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 2406, to Quaritch for £3.11.0; Bernard Quaritch, Rough List no. 115 (June 1891), no. 523 for £5.5.0; Frederick Parker Morrell (1839-1908, Frederic Morrell), of Broughton Grange, Oxford, armorial bookplate, 1886 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from James Tregaskis, August 1925.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Pigskin bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books