Incipit tabula composita a d[omi]no Alberto de ferrariis : iuris utriusq[ue] doctore de place[n]cia : super i[n]fra scripto opusculo de horis cano[n]icis : in modu[m] qui sequitur.

Accession number: 
PML 20997
Author: 
Albertus, de Placentia.
Published: 
[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer], [approximately 1487]
Description: 
[36] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes: 

The true author is Albertus de Ferrariis de Placentia, but ISTC and GW still record author as Albertus Trottus; see L. Sheppard in The Library, V, 2 (1947), p.158.
Title from incipit, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's type 1*:103/104G.
Signatures: a-c⁸ d¹²: 36 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.7 x 13.2 cm.

Binding: 
20th-century half brown morocco, with sprinkled paper sides, over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Variant Title: 

De horis canonicis

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 710; Joseph Baer, Catalogue of Fine and Valuable Books and Manuscripts (1919), no. 617; J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1920.
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