Reportatoriu[m] Biblie aureum.

Accession number:

PML 17590

Author:

Rampegolo, Antonio.

Published:

[Augsburg] : [Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra], [about 1475]

Description:

[116] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.

Notes:

Author from prologue (leaf [1]/1r): [R]eligiosis atq[ue] honestis viris in [christ]o dilectis fratribus studentibus Neapolim vo[n]ventus ordinis fratrum heremitaru[m] sancti augustini Frater anthonius Rampigollis ordinis memorati Salute[m]...
Title from incipit of tabula (leaf [1]/1r): Sequitur tabula in Reportatoriu[m] Biblie aureum ordine alphabeti designata...
Explicit (leaf [12]/10r): Explicit reportatoriu[m] biblie.
Printed in the Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra's type 1:105R.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6⁶; 7-12¹⁰]: 116 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Prologue only by Antonius Rampigollis, text by Bindo of Siena (Goff).
Bearer type on leaves [8]/5r and [12]/10r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 21.5 cm.
PML Checklist author name form: Rampegollis, Antonius de.
PML Checklist has pub. date: 1474.

Binding:

Modern full brown goatskin over boards (30 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by the Club Bindery for Robert Hoe, 1901. Vellum doublures and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; all edges gilt.

Variant Title:

Aurea Biblia, sive Repertorium aureum Bibliorum.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Friedrich August Gottlieb Barnheim (1797-1870), of Insterburg, E. Prussia, signature (leaf [1]/1r); his sale, Berlin, 8 May 1873; Robert Hoe, booklabel and gilt initials (front doublure) and initials (rear doublure); his sale, American Art Assoc., Part I, 24 April 1911, lot 2722, to Quaritch (with collation note by F.S. Ferguson, 5 May 1911, rear doublure) for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), 1911.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books