Contemplaciones devotissime per reverendissimu[m] d[omi]n[u]m d[omi]n[u]m Joh[ann]em de turrecremata.

Accession number: 
PML 21339
Author: 
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
Published: 
[Speyer] : [Printer of the 'Gesta Christi'], 24 December 1472.
Description: 
[16] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1921.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf a1r): Contemplaciones devotissime per reverendissimu[m] d[omi]n[u]m d[omi]n[u]m Joh[ann]em de turrecremata cardinale[m] quond[am] sancti Sixti edite atq[ue] in parietibus circuitus Marie minerve ne dum littera[rum] caracterib[us] ve[rum] ecia[m] ymaginum figuris ornatissime descripte atq[ue] depicte i[n]cipiu[n]t feliciter Anno salutis millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimosecunda die vero vigesima q[ua]rta me[n]sis decembris sedente Sixto quarto pontifice maximoo [etc.]
Colophon (leaf b8v): Contemplac[i]o[n]es devotissi[m]e p[er] rev[er]endissimu[m] d[omi]n[u]m d[omi]n[u]m Joh[ann]e[m] de T[ur]recremata cardinale[m] quonda[m] s[an]c[t]i sixti edite atq[ue] in parietib[us] circuitus marie minerve nedu[m] l[itte]ra[rum] caracterib[us] ve[rum] etiam ymaginu[m] figuris ornatissi[m]e descripte atq[ue] depicte felicit[e]r finiu[n]t Anno salutis .M.cccc.lxxii. die v[er]o vigesimaq[ua]rta me[n]sis decembris sedente Sixto quarta pontifice magno [etc.]
Printed in the Printer of the Gesta Christi's type 1:120G.
Collation: a-b⁸: 16 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.2 x 19 cm.

Binding: 
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (27.5 x 19 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey, 1939. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Meditationes seu Contemplationes devotissimae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated largely unrealized, only 4 lombards completed (possibly later). Annotations: Single notation and title inscription (leaf a1r). Abraded inscription (front fly leaf recto).

Provenance: 
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, May 1921.
Classification: 
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