Iohannis de trittenhem abbatis spanhemensis ordinis sancti benedicti de obserua[n]tia burzfeldensi, liber lugubris de statu et ruina monastici ordinis : omnibus religiosis ac deuotis viris no[n] minus vtilis q[ue] iocu[n]dus.

Accession number: 
PML 22074
Author: 
Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516.
Published: 
[Mainz] : [Peter von Friedberg], [after 21 April 1493]
Description: 
[30] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Prefatory letter to Blasius Scheltrup, Abbot of Hirsau, dated 21 April 1493.
Printed in Peter von Friedberg's types 1:81G and 2:141G.
Polain dates after 11 April 1493 in error. BSB-Ink dates not before May 1493.
Signatures: a-e⁶: 30 leaves, leaf e6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
For order of editions, see BMC.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 14 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: e6 (blank).

Binding: 
20th-century quarter laced vellum, with decorative paper sides, over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Mrs. W.T. Otto, 1928. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; dark edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from James Tregaskis, Sept. 1923.
Classification: 
Department: