In hoc volumi[n]e [con]tine[n]t[ur] tractat[us] & [ser]mo[n]es [com]pilati a reuere[n]dissimo d[omi]no d[omi]no petro d[e] aylliaco sacre theologie doctore quo[n]da[m] ca[n]cellario pa[r]isien[si] ...

Accession number: 
PML 198686.1
Author: 
Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?
Published: 
[Brussels] : [Fratres Vitae Communis], [between 9 June 1481 and 1483]
Description: 
[274] leaves ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2020.
Notes: 

Title from caption, a1 verso.
Dated by Hellinga, W. & L. The fifteenth-century printing types of the Low Countries. Polain dated about 1484.
Printed in the Fratres Vitae Communis type 1b:98G.
Signatures: a-h⁸ i⁶ ij⁶; k-p⁸; q⁸ r⁶ s⁸; A-C⁸ D¹⁰ E-P⁸ Q⁶: 274 leaves, leaves p8, s8 and Q6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: A1.
PML copy bound with text of the Alliaco split between quires s and A with quires [1-6] of the Passio bound in between, with quires [7-8] of the Passio - containing Guillaume de Saint-Amour, Defensorium ecclesiae - bound at end of volume.

Binding: 
15th-century German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (29.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports attributed to the Godehard workshop in Hildesheim (EBDB w000212, active 1460-1500); rebacked. Previous manuscript pastedowns removed, leaving offset, and modern paper endleaves. 2 clasps and metal corner pieces. Fore edge tabs.
Variant Title: 

Tractatus et sermones

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary (Hildesheim?) rubrication (same throughout volume), red initials, paragraph marks, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Leaves s7r-s8r with manuscript of David de Augusta, De exterioris et interioris hominis compositione Lib. II, 1 (incipit rubric: "De quattuor in quibus incipientes deo servire debent esse cauti"). Some alpha-numeric signatures still visible in Passio, continuing alphabet from Alliaco signatures.

Provenance: 
Ampleforth Abbey Library (York, England), bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto); unidentified shelfmark (Ampleforth?), gilt-tooled on black leather: C. V. 63 (spine); Christie's London, 9 Dec. 2020, lot 117 (bought-in); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased after sale on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, Dec. 2020.
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