Incipit passio domini textualis p[er]utilis iuxta [con]cordantiaum quattuor euangelistaru[m] cu[m] lucidissima interp[re]tat[i]one docto[rum].

Accession number: 
PML 198686.2
Published: 
[Lübeck] : [Printer of Calderinus (Johann Snel or Lucas Brandis?)], [approximately 1480]
Description: 
[70] leaves ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2020.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1v.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Printer of the Calderinus type 1:104G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-5⁸ 6¹⁰ 7⁸ 8¹⁰]: 70 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Without music.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 20.5 cm.
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: 

Passio Domini Jesu Christi secundum quattuor Evangelia

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. 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.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
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Department: 
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