Expositio super toto psalterio.

Accession number: 
PML 26.1
Author: 
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
Published: 
Mainz : Peter Schoeffer, 11 Sept. 1474.
Description: 
[173] leaves ; 30 cm (fol. and 4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from colophon (leaf [17]/12v): "Reverendissimi cardinalis/ tituli sancti Sixti domini iohannis de Turrecremata! expositio brevis et utilis super toto psalterio Mogu[n]tie imp[re]ssa/ Anno d[omi]ni. M.cccclxxiiii. tercio Idus septembris p[er] petru[m] Schoyffer de gernβhem feliciter est consu[m]mata."
Printed in Schoeffer's types 1:234G and 5:118G.
Printing variants noted in Bodleian T-273 and CIBN T-376.
Collation: [1-8¹⁰ 9¹⁰(+1*) 10-16¹⁰ 17¹²]: 173 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto
Colophon and device printed in red, f. [17]/12v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.5 cm, leaves [15]/4-7 and [17]/2.11 and 4-9 in Royal quarto.
Bennett Catalogue states that the 11th leaf is the added leaf in quire [9].

Binding: 
Modern half black goatskin, with sides covered in paste paper (29.5 x 22 cm) on 5 supports, bound by Duprez-Lahey (former binding by W. Pratt, see Bennett Cat.). Gilt edges. Original fifteenth-century title label preserved on 4th fly leaf: "Psalt[er]iu'm] glosa Joh[annes] T[ur]recre[mata]. Dyalog[us] Greg[orii] et Greg[orii] s[upe]r ca[ntica] ca[anticorum]," with red shelf mark "P K." PML notes from previous binding preserved on rear pastedown.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, underlining, and capital strokes. Torquemada and two Gregory texts rubricated in the same hand. Annotations: Some contemporary marginal annotations in Psalms 21-23. Psalm 118 divided by canonical hours. Late eighteenth/early nineteenth-century(?) notes on verso of 3rd fly leaf on printing history of Peter Schoeffer and his son Johann, including Jacob Scheffer of Bois le Duc, signed "M: A 18."

Provenance: 
Parish church in Merry-la-Vallée (Burgundy), France(?), fifteenth/sixteenth-century inscription, partially trimmed: "[?] Regis Curatus in Meera (Merriacum?) emit hunc librum" (f. [1]/1r); Jacob Scheffer (d. 1796), of s'Hertogenbosch (i.e. Bois le Duc), sold in 1780 (note on verso of 3rd fly leaf); Theodore Irwin (1827-1902); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Paste papers (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books