Meditationes.

Accession number: 
PML 250
Author: 
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
Published: 
Rome : Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus) and Simon Nicolai Chardella, 17 October 1473.
Description: 
[30] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27.5 x 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1v): Meditationes Reverendissimi patris domini Johannis de Turrecremata Sacrosancte Romane ecclesie Cardinalis posite [et] depicte de ipsius ma[n]dato in eccl[es]ie ambitu sancte Marie de Minerva Rome.
Colophon (leaf [3]/10v): Finite sunt contemplationes. Reverendissimi patris domini Joha[n]nis de Turrecremata. sacrosancte Romane eccl[es]ie cardinalis. posite et depicte de ipsius ma[n]dato. in eccl[es]ie a[m]bitu sancte marie de Minerva Rome. No[n] attrame[n]to. plumali. calamo. neq[ue] stilo ereo. sed artificiosa quanda[m] adinve[n]tione imprime[n]di seu caracteriza[n]di sic effigiatu[m]. ad dei laude[m] industrieq[ue] est co[n]su[m]matu[m]. per Uldaricu[m] gallum alemanu[m]. et Simone[m] de luca Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxiii. die vero .xvii. Octobris. Regnante Sixto Quarto pontifice maximo.
Printed in type 5:125G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰]: 30 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto
34 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.9 cm.
PML copy missing 3 leaves with woodcuts: [2]/4, [2]/7, and [2]/9. Leaf [3]/3 top half replaced in modern pen facsimile. Leaves [1]/10, [2]/5, and [3]/2 cancelled woodcuts.

Binding: 
Modern blind-stamped full brown goatskin over boards (27.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by W. Pratt, 1866 (manuscript receipt on rear pastedown). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Contemplationes devotissimae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards with filigree penwork, capital strokes, flourishes at end of paragraphs; woodcuts hand colored in red, green, and brown. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified English sale catalogue description (offered for £8.8.0, acquired by Inglis?), annotated that Hibbert copy sold for £10.5.0 in 1825 (rear pastedown); John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelf mark: C 23 III (front fly leaf recto), inherited by his son; Cornelius Inglis, M.D. (1824-1907), book label (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 11 June 1900, lot 781, purchased by Pickering for Bennett for £100; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 318, 14/6/1900 and price code: wmm/-/- +com (front fly leaf recto); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Woodcuts
Cancel leaves (Printing)
Rubrics
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books