Incipit liber de vita et moribus philosophoru[m].

Accession number:

PML 127561

Author:

Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?

Published:

[Cologne : Printer of the 'Flores Sancti Augustini' (Johann Schilling), for William Caxton, about 1472].

Description:

[58] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Fellows Fund and as the special gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1993.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r).
The printer is tentatively identified as Johann Veldener by S. Corsten, in Journal of the Printing Historical Society 11 (1976/77) pp. 1-18, but as Johann Schilling working for Caxton by Needham, Ars impressoria, pp. 117-20.
Printed in type 1:100G attributed to Johann Schilling.
GW dates as not after 1473.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6¹⁰]: 58 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.7 x 19.5 cm
Former board and fly leaves preserved in folder in box.

Binding:

Brown blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards (27.3 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Deborah Evetts. Plain paper pastedowns and flyleaves; plain endbands; edges stained red.

Variant Title:

De vita et moribus philosophorum.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication largely unrealized: red lombards, underlining, and capital strokes stop in quire 2. Annotations: Marginal notes in several hands. 15th-century inscription beginning: Johannes Andrea docto[ris] subtilissi[us] in medica facultate... (leaf [1]/1r).

Provenance:

Au am Inn (Gars am Inn, Bavaria), Augustinians (now a Franciscan nunnery), Blessed Virgin and St. Felicitas, inscription, 1637 (leaf [1]/2r); George Grant Francis (1814-1882), ex libris inscription (former fly leaf, preserved in box); Swansea Grammar School, donated by G.G. Francis, inscribed bookplate, 1854 (former fly leaf, now in box) and red ink stamp (througout); Sotheby's London, 3 December 1992, lot 87 (pulled and reoffered): Sotheby's New York, 14 June 1993, lot 11; Pierpont Morgan Library, booklabel (front pastedown), purchased from Sotheby's, 14 June 1993.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books