Quaestiones Evangeliorum de tempore et de sanctis.

Accession number: 
PML 21142
Author: 
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
Published: 
[Toulouse?] : [Henricus Turner and Johannes Parix], [about 1478]
Description: 
[202] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes: 

Title and imprint from ISTC. GW assigns to [Toulouse: Johann Parix, about 1477/78].
Odriozola "Los protoincunables (1472-1478) impresos por Juan Parix en Segovia (España) y Toulouse (Francia)," Gutenberg-Jahrbuch (1976): pp. 130-37 assigns tentatively to Turner and Parix. Unassigned in BMC. PML Checklist assigned to Heinrich Turner alone.
Printed in Turner's type 1:94G.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸; 6-18¹⁰ 19-20¹²]: 202 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [20]/12 blank.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [20]/12 (blank).

Binding: 
Contemporary (Spanish?) laced vellum over paper boards (29 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; modern plain endbands. 2 fore edge ties, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary (Spanish?) rubrication, red and mauve initials and paragraph marks (C- and Lambda-types). Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations and textual corrections throughout, in two (Spanish?) hands. The more extensive notes and foliation have been bleached, making those leaves now heavily stained. NNPN

Provenance: 
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Maggs Bros., July 1920.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
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