Accession number:
PML 129786.2
Published:
[Paris] : [Pierre Levet for himself and] Michel Le Noir, [between 11 August 1495 and 6 July 1496].
Description:
[68] leaves ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2006.
Notes:
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC. CIBN describes copy with Le Noir's device on leaf a1r, IGI (see Tav. XXXV) a copy without device.
Dated by CIBN.
Printed in Levet's types 5:100G, 6:65G, and 9:160G, with majuscules from type 8:180G.
Signatures: a-g⁸ h¹²: 68 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
The Praeceptorium is in fact by Henricus de Vrimaria (A. Zumkeller, Manuskripte von Werken der Autoren des Augustiner-Eremitenordens, 1966, p.325). Henricus de Vrimaria is also referred to as Frimaria, Freimaria and 'Heinrich von Freimar' (see GW).
PML copy is issue without Le Noir's device.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14.2 x 9.4 cm.
Binding:
Contemporary French blind-stamped calf over thin wooden boards (15 x 10 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; repaired. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; yellow edges. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, bookplate (front pastedown); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Bruce McKittrick on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, Oct. 2006.
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