Scolastica historia.

Accession number:

PML 75568

Author:

Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century.

Published:

[Chambéry] : [Printer of the Breviarium Sedunense, GW 5459 (Henricus Wirtzburg?)], [not after 1486]

Description:

[228] leaves ; 29.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1978.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC. GW attributed to western Switzerland.
Printed in Printer of the Breviarium Sedunense, GW 5459 (Henricus Wirtzburg?) types 1:225G and 2:86G. Printer attribution by Hillard.
Dated from the PML/Broxbourne copy, rubricated in 1486, and one of the Paris BN copies, annotated in that year.
Collation: [1⁶; 2-16⁸ 17¹⁰ 18-26⁸ 27-28⁶ 29⁸]: 228 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 21 cm.

Binding:

17th-century calf over paper boards (29.5 x 22.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

Historia scholastica

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initial (leaf [2]/1r only, the remainder unrealized), paragraph marks, and underlining. Rubricator's inscription dated 1486 (leaf [29]/8r). Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout, and foliation, likely in rubricator's hand. Unidentified notations, abraded (leaf [1]/1r).

Provenance:

Unidentified rubricator and marginal annotator, 1486; Maggs Bros., cat. 533, no. 14; unidentified Sotheby's catalogue description, lot 337; Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library, bookplate (front pastedown) and inscription: "AE R 1122." (rear pastedown), through inheritance to his son: John Ehrman (1920-2011), bookplate (rear pastedown), Broxbourne sale, part I, Sotheby's, 14 Nov. 1977, lot 94 to H.P. Kraus; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Kraus, 1978.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books