Qvia in su[m]ma Rainerij que alias pantheologia vocatur

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Accession number:

PML 258-59

Author:

Rainerius, de Pisis, -approximately 1348.

Published:

[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimoquarto [1474].

Description:

[509, 484] leaves ; 42.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1906.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Date from colophon, part II, leaf [52]/7r: Ab anno dominice incarnationis. Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimoquarto.
Printed in Zainer's type 4:95R.
Collation, part I: [1¹⁰ 2⁸(8+1: Causa fortune est) 3⁶ 4¹²; 5-49¹⁰ 50-51⁸ 52⁶]: 509 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [52]/6 blank; part II: [1-44¹⁰ 45⁸ 46-50¹⁰ 51-52⁸]: 484 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [52]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
In two parts.
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41 x 27 cm.
PML copy with part I, quires [1-4] bound at end of part I. Initial Z from part II, leaf [52]/4r cut out.

Binding:

15th-century German blind-stamped calf over partially-bevelled wooden boards (42.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Benedictine monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra (Augsburg Benediktiner-Kloster, EBDB w000114/Kyriss 2, active 1470-1534); repaired. Modern

Variant Title:

Summa universae theologiae

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary Augsburg rubrication, red initials (where required); primary initials illuminated or hand-painted with typical foliate decoration; dated 1474 (part II, leaf [52]/7r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Vellum fore edge tabs with red letters.

Provenance:

Georgenberg (Tyrol), Benedictines of St. Joseph, later moved to Fiecht (Tyrol), armorial of Georgenberg and Caspar Augsburger (abbot, 1469-1491) (part I, leaf [5]/3r and part II, leaf [1]/2r) and inscriptions: "Monastery Montis S. Georgij 1652" and "Mon[aste]rij Montis S. Georgij 1659" (part I, leaves [5]/2r and [52]/5r and part II, leaves [1]/2r and [52]/7r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased before 1906.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books