Liber meditationu[m] ac or[ati]o[nu]m deuotarum qui anthidotarius anime dicitur.

Accession number: 
PML 32528.2
Author: 
Salicetus, Nicolaus, -approximately 1493.
Published: 
In insigni ciuitate Argentinensis : Industrioso viro magistro Johanni Reynardi (alias Grunynger), Mccccxci. iii. ydus vero Augusti [11 August 1491].
Description: 
[1] II-CLXVI leaves (with mistakes) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1936.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, printed in red, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf s8r: Animaru[m] [christ]ifidelium anthidotariu[m] salutiferu[m] quo [et] egrota[n]tes adoptata[m] sanitate[m] restitui ... Industrioso viro magistro Iohanni Reynardi (al[ia]s grunynger) in insigni ciuitate Argentinen[sis]. vbi complet[us] extitit anno n[ost]re salutis Mccccxci. iii. ydus v[er]o Augusti.
Printed in Grüninger's types 9:150G, 11:91G, and 15:64G.
Signatures: a-s⁸: 144 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Woodcuts.
Printed in black and red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 15.7 x 10.5 cm.

Binding: 
15th-century Alsace/South German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (17 x 12 cm), sewn on 3 supports, with tools assigned to the Blüte gestielt I bindery (EBDB w003273, active 1489-1511, with some tools shared by the Strasburg bindery Bablus-Rolle I (EBDB w003029, active 1486-1519)); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain vellum pastedowns; decorative endbands; yellow edges. 1 clasp.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Inscribed on rear pastedown: "principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est" and "principiis obita sero medicina patatior"

Provenance: 
Sebald Kremer, perhaps canon at St. Pierre in Strasbourg, inscription: "Ex libris Sebaldj Kremers S. Petrj In. Arg. canonicj," 15th/16th century, (Hore, lear [1]/1r); unidentified inscriptions: "O. rbo" (Hore, leaf [1]/1r) and "Principibus placuisse viris non ultima laus est. Anno 1560. Principiis obsta sero medicina paratur" from Horace and Ovid, respectively (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E. Ph. Goldschmidt, Feb. 1936.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
Printed Books