Liber super devotissimo tractatu corone mistice dei genitricis semper virginis marie.

Accession number:

PML 196731

Published:

[Paris] : [Pierre Le Caron], [not before 1492]

Description:

34 unnumbered leaves : 1 illustration (woodcut) ; 19.6 x 13.4 cm. (4to.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2017.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
Explicit (leaf [5]/5v): Explicit corona mistica beate virginis marie ad laudem ei[us].
Dated not before 1492 by Hillard, about 1495 by Goff and GW (ISTC).
Printed in types 2:110G (title) and 1:101B (text).
Collation: a⁸ b⁶ c⁸ d-e⁶: 32 leaves, leaf [5]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
1 woodcut of Virigin and Child (leaf [1]/1v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.6 x 13.4 cm.
PML copy has 5-6 different watermarks, including 3-4 different gloved hands (similar to Briquet 11399-430), an armorial with 3 fleur-de-lys (also found in ChL 1467), and a pope's head(?) (similar to Briquet 7546-50).

Binding:

Modern marbled paper wrapper (20 x 14.2 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. In clamshell box.

Variant Title:

Corona mystica beatae Mariae virginis

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and underlining. Annotations: 1 contemporary/early inscription: "qui bien se mire Exaudi d[omi]ne" (leaf d6v).

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Konstantinopel/R.A. van den Graven, April 2017.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Department:

Printed Books