Postilla i[n] eva[n]geliu[m] b[ea]ti Joh[ann]is.

Accession number:

PML 21124

Author:

Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.

Published:

[Cologne : Johann Guldenschaff, not after 1477]

Description:

[374] leaves ; 26 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.

Notes:

CIBN A-129 records a table (two quires of 6 leaves) not described elsewhere.
Collation: [1-15¹⁰ 16-17⁸; 18-35¹⁰ 36-37⁸; 38-39⁶]: 374 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank. Quires 38-39 are tabula described in CIBN copy.
Colophon (leaf [37]/8r): Postilla in evangelium beati Joh[ann]is venerabilis d[omi]ni Alberti magni Explicit feliciter.
Copy in Mogiła C has date of purchase 1477 (IBP).
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.1 x 18.3 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Printed in Guldenschaff's type 1:110G.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Venerabilis domini Alberti magni p[rae]dicator[um] ordinis: quondam Ratispone[n]sis ep[iscop]i: postilla i[n] eva[n]geliu[m] b[ea]ti Joh[ann]is...

Binding:

Modern full rust goatskin over paper boards (26.1 x 18.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Douglas Cockerell, 1901. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. Two hook/leather braided ties, wanting.

Variant Title:

Enarrationes in evangelium Johannis.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue lombards, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Lilienfeld (Lower Austria), Cistercians, inscription: Monasterij B. V. Campilil: (leaf [1]/2r) and purchase inscription by Abbot Paulus, 1478: hic liber empt[us] e[st] p[ro] ii flor[eniss] ung[?]is una ligatu[r]a p[er] Rev[er]end[um] p[atr]em Abbatem Paulu[m] mon[asterii] Campililioru[m] Anno 78 (leaf [39]/6r); J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Aug. 1920.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Prices (Provenance)

Century:

20th century

Department:

Printed Books