Incipit vocabulari[us] q[ui] intitulatur Teuthonista.

Accession number: 
PML 36801
Author: 
Schueren, Gerard van der, approximately 1411-
Published: 
Cologne : Arnold Ther Hoernen, 31 May 1477.
Description: 
[405] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1941.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf A1r): Incipit vocabulari[us] intitulatur Teuthonista. vulgarit[ur] dicendo der duytschlend[er] ea r[ati]o[n]e q[uia] t[er]mini i[n] capite rigar[um] a theuthonico su[n]t incepti. Edicio q[uoque] h[uius]mo[d]i op[er]is [con]pleta e[st] anno domini .M.cccc.lxxv. de mense Marcii.
Colophon (leaf v1v): Explicit presens vocabulaorum materia. a per docto eloquentissimoq[ue] viro. d[omi]no Gherardo de schueren Ca[n]cellario Illustrissimi ducis Clivensis ex diversorum terministar[um] voluminibus contexta. propriisq[ue] eiusdem manibus labore ingenti co[n]scripta ac correcta Colonie per me Arnoldu[m] ther horne[n] diligentissime impressa. finita sub annis domini M.cccc.lxxvii. die ultimo mensis maii. De quo cristo maria filio sit laus et gloria per seculorum secula Amen. [printer's device]
Printed in ter Hoernen's type 1:100G.
Collation: A¹⁰ B¹⁰(+1*) C-V¹⁰; a-s¹⁰ t⁸ v⁶ x¹⁰: 405 leaves, leaves V10 and x10 blank; leaf B1* unsigned.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Many leaves show offprinting from spacers and furniture.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.8 x 20.2 cm.
PML copy listed under Division B in Checklist.

Binding: 
Nineteenth-century gilt-tooled, full brown pigskin over wooden boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Francis Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; all edges gilt.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks (printed, painted over), red capital strokes; major initials of interlocking red and blue with negative white decoration, with red and blue marginal filigree typical of Lower Rhine region (leaves A1r, a1r, and a2v). Annotations: 17th/18th-century note below colophon: Orlandus hunc typographum non recte vocat Albertum Terbornem. Impressit hic iam A. 1473 Petrarchae Bucolica. (leaf v1v).

Provenance: 
Henry Huth (1815-1878), leather booklabel (front pastedown); Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), inherited from father; Huth sale, Sotheby's, part VII, 1 July 1918, lot 6639, for £50; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Retz & Storm, July 1941.
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