Salemonis ecclesie Constantiensis ep[iscop]i glosse ex illustrissimis collecte auctoribus incipiunt foeliciter.

Accession number: 
PML 54715
Author: 
Salemo, Episcopus Constantiensis.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : [Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra], [approximately 1474]
Description: 
[288] leaves ; 41.5 x 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Trust Fund of Lathrop C. Harper, 1965.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r).
No colophon. Imprint from ISTC, based on type evidence.
Printed in type 1:105R.
Collation: [1¹² 2-14¹⁰ 15⁸ 16-28¹⁰ 29⁸]: 288 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio
Woodcut initials and 3-line blanks left for rubricated initials.
Pseudo- Salemo. Extracts from the Liber glossarum and the Abavus maior (cf CIBN). On the author, see Verfasser Lexikon² VIII, 542-44.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 28.2 cm.
PML copy with proof of leaf [1]/12v on [1]/1r, with [1]/1v blank.

Binding: 
Modern quarter red morocco over original 15th-century boards (41.5 x 29 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Charlotte Ullman, 1965. Plain paper pastedowns (original?) and modern plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands (mdoern). 2 clasps, missing. In the box are preserved fragments of the original binding, attributed to the Vogel verziert workshop (EBDB w002087/Kyriss 92, also known as Fuchsvogel-Meister II, active 1470-1489).
Variant Title: 

Glossae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Woodcut initials colored by hand in red, pale green, and yellow; leaves [1]/2-7 only rubricated with red lombards, capital strokes, and marginal alphabetic divisions (all other rubrication unrealized). Annotations: Contemporary Latin marginal notations with added descriptions, with one of the inscriptions on 3r signed AG (leaves [1]/3r-4r only). Paper title label from previous binding reattached to top board: "[V]ocabularius salemonis Item adhuc alius".

Provenance: 
Unidentified duplicate inscription: "Dupl" but no stamps of Berlin or Munich (leaf [1]/2r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from W. Schatzki on the Trust Fund of Lathrop C. Harper, Jan. 1965.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Boards (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books