Ordinarius Praemonstratensis.

Accession number: 
PML 19176.2
Published: 
[Lübeck] : [Matthaeus Brandis], [not after 1483]
Description: 
[56] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit Ordinarius Premonstratensis.
Explicit (leaf [5]/7v): Explicit ordinarius ordinis premonstratensis. Ex vero originali ecclesie premonstrate[n]sis. [et] aliis statutis patrum eiusdem ordinis capittulariter co[n]gregatis assumptis. nec non veris aliis exemplaribus certitudinaliter p[ro] ut nunc tene[n]dus est magna diligentia conscriptus. Qui quidem ordinarius si discordare in certis locis ab antiquo repertus fuerit. sciat hoc humilis frater eiusde[m] ordinis. sufficie[n]ti auctoritate et ratione immutatu[m] et sicut hic in isto [con]tinetur tenendu[m].
Printed in Brandis's types 155 (heading) and 98 (text) (BMC).
Printing also attributed to Simon Koch in Magdeburg "not after 1485" (GW).
A Teplá copy has an ownership note dated 1483 (ISTC).
Collation: [1-2¹² 3-4¹⁰ 5¹²]: 56 leaves, leaves [5]/8-12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Text begins (leaf [1]/1r): "Incipit Ordinarius Premonstratensis / De reuerentia circa altare. / [P]Ia fides habet presentiam cristi et sanctoru[m] angelo- / rum esse in altari. ..."
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.2 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [5]/11-12 (blanks). One blank perhaps used as rear pastedown.

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Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication and music unrealized. Annotations: Minimal marginal keyword notations. "Fol: 2." on f. [1]/1r and "Abundat 8 foliis" on f. [4]/9v.

Provenance: 
Melk Abbey, Austria (armorial binding); Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Karl W. Hiersemann, 1911.
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