Accession number:
PML 20679
Published:
Maguntie : p[er] Petru[m] de gernsheym, anno domini .M.cccc.lxx [1470, before 7 September]
Description:
[1] leaf ; 42 cm (broadside)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917 (accessioned 1919).
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from incipit: "...liber Ep[isto]laris sive Jeronimianus in manib[us] e[st] magu[n]tie p[er] Petru[m] de genrsheym imprime[n]dus." Explicit: "Datum maguntie anno domini .M.cccc.lxx.
Printed in Schoeffer's type 5:118G.
1 leaf, printed on one side only.
Paper format: Royal half-sheet.
Isak Collijn described a copy, now lost, dated 'anno vertente' instead of 'in proximo festo michaelis' (Zeitschrift des Vereins für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 9 (1907) pp.285-333).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41.5 x 28 cm.
Binding:
Not bound, in folder.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: Bücheranzeige [Advertisement for the Hieronymus Epistolae]
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary title inscriptions for Georgenthal volumes.
Provenance:
Sankt Georgenberg-Fiecht Abbey (Tyrol), Benedictines, used as pastedown in the Georgenberg copy of 1470 Epistolae (Murray sale, lot 213 -- current location?), inscription (partially abraded): "Ep[isto]la[rum] hieronimi volum[en ???] mo[na]sterii mo[n]t[is] s[an]cti georgii vall[?] eni q[uam] [??] d[omin]us [???] abbas [???]ren," and inscription with shelf mark: "G3 p[ri]ma p[ar]s ep[isto]le Jermonimi p[re]sb[ite]r" and "Epistola[rum] hieronimi p[ri]mu[m] volum[en];" Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 409, purchased by Quaritch for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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