Accession number:
PML 127520
Published:
[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer and Guillaume Bouchet], [approximately 1500]
Description:
[14] leaves ; (4to) 19 cm
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 1992.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's types 10:110G and 11:76G.
GW dates as after 1500(?).
Signatures: A-B⁴ C⁶: 14 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Translated by Jacobus Beneventanus.
The 'De clavibus sapientiae' is a Latin translation by Jacobus Beneventanus of the Italian 'Proverbi' which go under the name of Schiavo di Bari or Il Savio Romano (GW enters under Baro). Cf. C.H. Haskins, Studies in mediaeval culture, p. 142-143. The Pseudo-Ovidius, Philomela is a work now attributed to Eugenius Toletanus (Hillard 1816).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.1 x 13.2 cm.
Binding:
Modern laced limp vellum (19 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Deborah Evetts, 1998. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Previous plain paper over paper boards binding in box.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Two contemporary marginal notations, leaf A1r only.
Provenance:
Édouard Laboulaye (1811-1883), inscription: "Souvenir d'un vieil ami | 4 Janvier 1867 | Ed. Laboulaye" (front endleaf 1 recto of previous binding, now lost); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bruce McKittrick on the Curt F. Bühler, Nov. 1992.
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