Expositio super toto psalterio.

Accession number: 
PML 27
Author: 
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
Published: 
Mainz : Peter Schoeffer, 10 Mar. 1476.
Description: 
[199] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from colophon (leaf [20]/7r): "Reverendissimi cardinalis tituli sancti Sixti domini iohannis de Turrecremata: expositio brevis et utilis super toto psalterio Moguntie impressa/ Anno domini .M.cccclxxvi. decima die marcii p[er] petru[m] Schoyffer de gernssheym feliciter est consu[m]mata. [Device]"
Printed in Schoeffer's types 1:234G and 5:118G.
Collation: [1¹² 2-7¹⁰ 8¹⁰(+7*) 9-18¹⁰ 19-20⁸]: 199 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [20]8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Colophon and device printed in red, leaf [20]/7r.
In the copies at Cambridge UL and Edinburgh NLS leaf 82 (leaf [8]/12?) is cancelled.
Variant collations have 11 or 12-1 leaves in quire [8], see GW and BSB-Ink.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [20]/8 (blanks). Misbound, quires [14] and [16] switched. Some staining along edges.

Binding: 
Modern half black goatskin, with sides covered in paste paper (29.3 x 22 cm) on 4 bands, bound by Duprez-Lahey. Contemporary quire numbers in bottom center margin of first rectos, mostly trimmed.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Initial on f. [1]/2r added later, in same ink of abraded ownership inscription, and initial on f. [1]/4r unrealized. Annotations: Pen trials and inscriptions in contemporary hands on leaf [20]/7v, including "Pater noster," excerpts from the mass, and "O wertter muynt mynt[?] herze[n] gront."

Provenance: 
Sixteenth-/seventeenth-century monastic provenance inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); George Venables-Vernon, 2nd Baron Vernon (1735-1813), bookplate (front pastedown); Friedrich Georg Hermann Culemann (1811-1886), Hanover, ex libris inscription preserved from fly leaf of previous binding (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 Feb. 1870, lot 701; William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 3180, sold to Leighton; William Morris (1834-1896); Richard Bennett (1849-1930) (provenance evidence for Crawford, Morris, and Bennett removed when rebound; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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