Liber meditationu[m] ac orationu[m] deuotarum qui Anthidotari[us] anime dicitur cu[m] tabula insertus.

Accession number: 
PML 195843.2
Author: 
Salicetus, Nicolaus, -approximately 1493.
Published: 
In insigni civitate Argentiensis: magistri Johannis Reynardi (alias grunynger), Mccccxciiii. q[ua]rto vero nonarum Marcii ["4 March" 1494].
Description: 
[1], II-CXXX, [1] leaves (with errors, leaf numbers LXXXV-LXXXVIII and CVIII-CIX repeated; leaves O2, O4, O6, and O8 misfoliated) ; 15 cm (8vo)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2012.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf R7v: Actu[m]q[ue] dilige[n]ti adhibita exami[n]at[i]o[n]e i[m]pe[n]sis p[ro]vidi viri m[a]g[ist]ri Jo[hann]is Reynardi (al[ia]s grunynger) i[n] i[n]signi ci[vi]tate Argen[tiensis]. ubi co[m]plet[us] extitit Mccccxciiii. q[ua]rto vero nonarum Marcii.
Printed in Grüninger's type 15:64G.
Signatures: A-R⁸: 136 leaves, leaf R8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
The day and month are presumably taken over from Grüninger's editions of 1493 (ISTC is00039000 and is00040000).
The first two lines of the title are printed from a woodblock in white on black ground.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Errors in foliation: leaf numbers LXXXV-LXXXVIII and CVIII-CIX repeated. Folios O2, O4, O6, and O8 misfoliated.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14.7 x 9.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: R8 (blank).

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Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary red initials and capital strokes on leaves E4v-G8r only; rubrication does not match that in Jordanus. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified convent ownership inscription: "Iste liber pertinet sorori [abraded]," early 16th-century (f. A1r of Jordanus); Galerie Bassenge (Berlin), 18 October 2012, lot 255, to Morgan; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, October 2012.
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