Composita verborum noviter correcta et emendata.

Accession number:

PML 199124.2

Author:

John, of Garland, approximately 1195-approximately 1272. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJmMYRdd8jdyvRfDFKRFrq

Published:

[Basel] : [Printer of the Modus legendi abbreviaturas], [approximately 1484]

Description:

[62] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2024.

Notes:

Title from colophon, leaf H6v: Finiu[n]tur co[m]posita verbo[rum] nouiter correcta [et] emendata.
Printed in the Printer of the Modus legendi abbreviatura (H 11467) type 1:91G.
Signatures: A-G⁸ H⁶: 62 leaves, leaf A1 blank with A2 signed A1, etc. A4 missigned C3, C3-4 missigned E3-4.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
In verse, with commentary.
32-33 lines to a full page.
Begins, A1r: [A] Sipo co[m]posita sunt obsipo dissipo dicta.
Commentary by Johannes Synthen.
Edition not recorded in ISTC or GW (as of April 2024).
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 15 cm.

Binding:

15th-century German quarter blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (21.5 x 16 cm), sewn on 3 supports by the St. Godehard bindery (EBDB w000212, active about 1460-1500). Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. 1 clasp, missing. Hole on rear board for chain hasp. The wooden boards show indentations from previous blind-tooling and were likely reused from an earlier binding.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: "Composita v[er]bo[rum] iohannis sinthen q[ui] suit in domo frat[rum] dauentrie conue[n]tualis," 15th century (leaf A1r). Marginal keyword notations. Contemporary foliation, ignoring blank, mostly trimmed.

Provenance:

Hildesheim (Lower Saxony), St. Godehard, Benedictines, inscription: "liber monasterij s[an]c[t]i Godehardi p[ropr]e [et] extra mu" (Perger, leaf A1r) and binding; Ampleforth Abbey, bookplates (front pastedown and Verba deponentalia, leaf C8v) and stamp (front endleaf 1 recto); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Bernard Quaritch on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, April 2024.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Department:

Printed Books