Alberti magni doctoris laudatissimi tractatus qui appellatur paradisus anime, tractatus de virtutibus anime veris et perfectis.

Accession number:

PML 128540.2

Author:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.

Published:

Impressum Colonie : per me Henricum Quentell, .M.cccc.xcviij. mensis Iulij die .xx [20 July 1498].

Description:

[34] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.

Notes:

Pseudo-Albertus. On the authorship, see Verfasserlexikon 2nd ed., VII: col. 293-98.
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [F]6r: Explicit opusculum Alberti magni doctoris laudatissimi, quondam Ratisponen[sis] episcopi, de virtutib[us] anime veris et perfectis. Impressu[m] Colonie per me Henricu[m] quentell. Anno virginalis partus .M.cccc.xcviij. Mensis Iulij die .xx.
Printed in Quentell's types 7:80G, 9:280G, and 10:155G.
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C-D⁶ E⁴ [F]⁶: 34 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Bearer type visible on lower part of leaf [F]6.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy with lower portion of leaf A1r cut away.

Binding:

15th/early 16th-century Salzburg blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (21,5 x 15 cm), sewn on 2 supports by the bindery at the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, Salzburg (EBDB w002790, aka Salzburg St Peter IV, active second-half of the 15th century-1564). 1 clasp. Manuscript title label on top board, with second label, perhaps former shelfmark, missing. Manuscript waste of early liturgical book with heighted neumes as binding reinforcement and quire guards.

Variant Title:

Paradisus animae sive tractatus de virtutibus

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials (where required). Annotations: A few marginal notations in text, mainly keywords in graphite.

Provenance:

Unidentified shelfmarks: H.2.83 and I.A.23 (front pastedown); abraded inscription (leaf a1r of Speculum anime); Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (cited in Goff Supplement); Walter Goldwater (1907-1985), his sale, Swann Galleries, part II, 5 Dec. 1985, lot 121 for $84,000; Helmut N. Friedlaender (1913-2008), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, part I, 23 April 2001, lot 119, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased (via HP Kraus) on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

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