Accession number:
PML 44911
Published:
In alma Louaniensi vniuersitate : per Egidium vander Heerstraten, duodecima die Nouembris [12 November, 1486-1488]
Description:
[175] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Gift of Mrs. Mansfield Ferry, 1953.
Notes:
Title from xylographic half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf B5v: Ad laudem [et] honorem su[m]mi ac omnipotentis deiq[ue] marie matris sue intacte Explicit Henricus de piro super Institutionibus Per Egidium vander heerstraten in alma louanien[si] vniuersitate Impressus duodecima die Nouembris.
Dated in HPT. Dated 1488 in Goff.
Printed in Vander Heerstraten's type 2:94G.
Signatures: a-d⁸ e-f⁶; g-i⁶ k⁸ l⁶(+l4) m⁸ n-z [et] [con] A-B⁶: 175 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: f1.
Binding:
Contemporary German blind-stamped half pigskin over wooden boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. 1 clasp, missing.
Variant Title:
Super institutiones
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary German red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, in quires a-b only.
Provenance:
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 3330; unidentified sale catalogue, no. 276, and lot number written in red crayon (front pastedown); Peter Anderson, Esq., inscription: "from W. R. D., August 1840," written in purple ink in parallelogram (front endleaf 1 recto); Alfred Hennen (1786-1870), signature (Report to Fellows states that Hennen was an ancestor of donor, Jean Morris Ferry); Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Mrs. Mansfield (Jean Morris) Ferry, June 1953.
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