Incipit tractatus de v[ir]tutib[us]...paradisus anime.

Accession number: 
PML 77823.2
Author: 
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Published: 
[Basel : Johannes Schilling, not after 29 May 1473]
Description: 
[30] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the L.C. Harper Fund, 1983.
Notes: 

Title from incipit, leaf [1]/2r.
The press, identified as Schilling's and formerly located at Cologne, is reassigned by Dalbanne and Droz to Basel; see Needham, "William Caxton and his Cologne Partners," in Ars impressoria, pp. 126-27.
Printer frequently cited as Johannes Solidi (Schilling); formerly known as Printer of Albertus Magnus 'De virtutibus'. Printed in Schilling's type 1:98G.
Date based on purchase inscription in Uppsala copy.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰]: 30 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 21 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Variant Title: 

Paradisus animae, sive Tractatus de virtutibus

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks (C- and P-type), and capital strokes (rubrication same in all three works in PML 77823). Annotations: No marginal notations. Titles of volume contents on foredge.

Provenance: 
Gabriel of Fritzlar, inscription on reinforcement of leather knot tab: "Fr. Gabriel Frideslariensis An[n]o 1633 16 May;" shelf mark, unidentified: black ink stamped S surmounted by crown (bottom panel of spine); Walter Goldwater (1907-1985), bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Swann Galleries, 1 Dec. 1983, lot 110; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Swann Galleries, 1 Dec. 1983.
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