Accession number:
PML 21988
Published:
[Venice] : [Vindelinus de Spira], [about 1473]
Description:
[102] leaves ; 30 x 21 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
Proctor assigned to de Colonia and Manthen.
Dated about 1472 in CIBN.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-11⁸ 12-13⁶]: 102 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [13]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 20 cm.
PML copy mising 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [13]/6 (blanks).
Binding:
Modern full red goatskin over paper boards (30 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Contemporary headlines. Annotations: Contemporary marginal and interlinear notations in Latin and English in two hands, one of which is Lucas. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures.
Provenance:
Edwardus Lucas, ownership inscription, 15th/16th century (one Edwardus Lucas donated a window to the chapel at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, in 1582); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 1923.
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