Sermo sup[er] or[ati]onem d[omi]nicam.

Accession number:

PML 78154.1

Author:

Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.

Published:

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zell], [about 1468-1469]

Description:

[8] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the L.C. Harper Fund, 1984.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit sermo beati Augustini ep[iscop]i sup[er] or[ati]onem d[omi]nicam.
Dated by CIBN according to state of type, following BMC. GW and Goff date about 1470.
Printed in Zell's types 1b:106/11G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 14.5 cm
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (22 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Rose Stadtbuchbinder workshop in Cologne (EBDB w000169/Kyriss 100); spine cover wanting and leather peeling from boards. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Hebrew manuscript offset to leather turn-ins of top board. Vellum quire guards, including two fragments of the Mainz Catholicon, leaf [13]/1 (ISTC ib00020000, see also Powitz, Handschriften der Stadt- und Universitätsbibliothek Frankfurt am Main) at leaves [8]/4.5 [16]/4.5 of Antoninus, Confessionale.

Variant Title:

Sermo super orationem dominicam

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, blue and red lombards and red paragraph marks (C-type) (same rubrication in entire volume). Annotations: No notations in text. Alpha-numeric quire signatures at bottom right edge of text block (same in entire volume). Contemporary foliation (continues through most of volume). Illustration of a cross (front fly leaf verso) inscribed with the opening line of the Trisagion in Greek with the final lines of Media vita in mortis sumus in Latin: "Agios o Theos, Agios ischyros, Agios athanatos, eleison imas. Sancte Deus, sancte fortis, sancte et misericors Salvator, amarae morti ne tradas nos;" inscriptions above is stained and difficult to read. Contemporary contents (third front fly leaf recto), showing volume now lacks Thomas Aquinas, De articulis fidei et ecclesiae sacramentis (possibly Zell's edition of 1469, ISTC it00273300).

Provenance:

Unidentified Dominican convent (Frankfurt/Main?), "Ord pd[rum]" inscription (first fly leaf verso); unidentified German inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/1r of Augustine) and contents, early 19th century(?) (fourth front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased Christie's London, 30 May 1984, lot 10.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Point holes (Printing)

Printed waste (Binding)

Guards (Binding)

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books