De sermonum proprietate, sive Opus de universo.

Accession number:

PML 21987

Author:

Rabanus Maurus, Archbishop of Mainz, 784?-856.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [The R-Printer (Johannes Mentelin and/or Adolf Rusch)], [about 1473-1475]

Description:

[170] leaves ; 40 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Epistola Rabani ad ludouicum regem inuictissimu[m] &c. incipit foeliciter.
Imprint from ISTC. A date of "before 20 July 1467" is based on a MS. note in a copy at Paris BN (cf. CIBN). P. Needham in Christie's, Doheny 16, disputes the date, placing the types 1473-75 and regarding Mentelin in association with Rusch as responsible for the work of the R-printer.
Printed in The R-Printer (Johannes Mentelin and/or Adolf Rusch) type 1:103R.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁸; 4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7⁸ 8⁶; 9⁸ 10-11¹⁰; 12⁸ 13-14¹⁰; 15⁸ 16-17¹⁰; 18-19⁸]: 170 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [19]/7-8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.5 x 27 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: leaf [1]/1 and [19]/8 (blanks).

Binding:

18th-century German black calf over paper boards (40 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports, with armorial for the Von der Halden family on both covers, inscribed: "I. A. F. V. D. H. F. Z. A. H. Z. A. V. O. 1. 7. 1. 8." Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges. Bosses and 2 clasps.

Variant Title:

Opus de universo

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary illuminated initial and foliate border decoration (leaf [1]/2r only); remainder of initials filled in later in simple ink. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Edward Sullivan (1852-1928), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, March 1923.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books