Beatissimi Gregorij pape tocius eccl[es]ie luminis p[rae]clarissimi in septe[m] psalmos penitentiales explanatio admodum vtil[is].

Accession number: 
PML 198699.1
Author: 
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604, author.
Published: 
Impressa Maguntie : per Jacobu[m] Medenbach, Millesimo Quadringe[n]tesimo Nonagesimoquinto. die v[er]o penultima mensis Marcij [30 March 1495].
Description: 
[82] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf o4r: Explanatio beatissimi Gregorij pape in septem psalmos penitentiales finit foeliciter. Impressa Maguntie per Jacobu[m] Medenbach ciuem ibidem. Anno a partu virginis salutifero. Millesimo Quadringe[n]tesimo Nonagesimoquinto. die v[er]o penultima mensis Marcij.
Printed in Meydenbach's types 1:92G and 2:155G.
Signatures: a-n⁶ o⁴: 82 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.

Binding: 
16th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports (2 double and 2 single) by the Einhorn IIIa bindery (EBDB w003108, southern Germany, active 1478-1514). Manuscript leaf from 12th-century German martyrology, 2-4 August as front pastedown, and plain paper rear pastedown; yellow edges. 1 clasp, missing.
Variant Title: 

Beatissimi Gregorij pape tocius ecclesie luminis praeclarissimi in septem psalmos penitentiales explanatio admodum utilis

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks (same in all parts of Sammelband). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified contemporary shelfmark: II G 5 and contents inscription (fore edge) and inscription: "Caspar" (top edge); Alexandre and Elaine Rosenberg, Alexandre Rosenberg bookplate (designed by Picasso) (front pastedown), Rosenberg sale, Christie's NY, 23 April 2021, lot 85, to: Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
Printed Books