Accession number:
PML 25321
Uniform title:
Seven sages of Rome.
Published:
[Cologne] : [Printer of Augustinus, 'De fide'], [about 1473]
Description:
[72] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased in 1928.
Notes:
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Augustinus 'De fide' type 1:105G.
The printer has been identified with Goiswin Gops and with Johann Schilling (cf. Corsten(Anfänge) pp.44-45 and Needham, Ars impressoria, pp.126-28).
Collation: [1-9⁸]: 72 leaves, leaf [9]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21 x 14.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [9]/8 (blank).
Binding:
Late 19th-/early 20th-century English full calf over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Roman numeral foliation in top margins. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, mainly keywords, throughout text. Early manuscript sequential numbering of first four leaves of each quire.
Provenance:
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Goldschmidt, 1928.
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