Accession number:
PML 247
Published:
[Rome] : [Georgius Lauer], [about 1470]
Description:
[218] leaves ; 31.5 x 23 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title from ISTC.
No colophon. Printer identified by type.
Printed in type 1:128R.
Collation: [1⁶; 2-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9¹⁰ 10⁸; 11-21¹⁰ 22-23⁸]: 218 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank. Variant collation in BMC.
Paper format: Median folio
Skipped line in text ("Alio modo...surreptione peccavit") printed in bottom margin of leaf [17]/7v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.5 x 21.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding:
18th/19th-century English green morocco with gilt-fillet border over paper boards (31.5 x 23 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue southern German puzzle initials, with alternating red and blue minor lombards, red paragraph marks, and yellow capital strokes. Red incipit rubrics. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Manuscript numerical quire numbers in outer margins of first rectos.
Provenance:
Unidentified inscription, trimmed and abraded, 17th/18th century (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified shelf mark: C 33 (leaf [1]/2r); Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768); his sale, De Bure (Paris), 10 April 1769, no. 263; Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), purchased from Payne, inscription dated 31 Oct. 1772, price abraded (13.13.-?) (first paper fly leaf), Wodhull left his collection to his sister-in-law Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 2564, for £4.4.0 (to Morris?); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and price code: r/r/ xii/o (front fly leaf verso); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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