De spiritualibus asce[n]sionib[us].

Accession number: 
PML 125704.4
Author: 
Zerbolt, Gerard, 1367-1398.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Prüss], [approximately 1488-1493].
Description: 
[104] leaves ; 14 cm. (8vo)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf [A]/1r): "Tractatus de spiritualibus asce[n]sionib[us]" and incipit (leaf [A]/2r): "Incipit devotus tractatulus d[omi]ni Gerardi zutphanie d[e] sp[irit]ualib[us] asce[n]sionib[us]."
Printed in Prüss's types 7:156G (text) and 8:80G (title and incipit heading).
Collation: [A]-N⁸: 104 leaves. Quires only signed on first folio.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
The edition is in three parts: I) Zerbolt, De spiritualibus ascensionibus (leaves [A]/1r-N8v); II) Thomas a Kempis, Meditationes de vita Christi (leaves O1r-DD8v); III) Bertholdus, Horologium devotionis circa vitam Christi (leaves [Ee]/1r-Pp8v, leaf Pp8 blank). The three parts are found separately or in any combination (ISTC).
Part I includes David von Augsburg, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione, Lib. II, 1 (De quatuor in quibus incipientes deo servire debent esse cauti) on leaves N6r-8v.
PML has part I: Zerbolt, De spiritualibus ascensionibus only.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.4 x 9.8 cm.

Binding: 
Modern half calf over original German beechwood boards (13.9 x 10cm). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. One clasp, wanting. Manuscript quire guard in final quire. Gilt titles on colored leather on spine.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paraphs, capital strokes, and underlining (same rubrication throughout volume). Manuscript quire signatures added on second, third, and fourth leaves in rubricator's hand.

Provenance: 
Modern (early 20th-century?) shelfmarks, unidentified: 103:a:46 (crossed out) and 120:d:3 (front pastedown); Julia P. Wightman (1909-1994), bookplate (front pastedown) with price code "HWM" and purchase date of 1964 (front fly verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Julia P. Wightman, 1994.
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