[I]ncipit liber beati Leonis pape sermonum.

Accession number:

PML 25123

Author:

Leo I, Pope, -461.

Published:

[Poland (Chelmno?)] : [Printer of Leo Papa, 'Sermones'], [about 1477-1478]

Description:

[140] leaves ; 28 x 20 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1927.

Notes:

Collation: [1-14¹⁰]: 140 leaves, leaves [14]/9-10 blank.
Explicit (leaf [14]/8v): Jhesus Christus Maria.
On the location of this printing-house in Poland see E. Szandorowska, in Quaerendo 2 (1972), pp.162-172. The press was previously assigned to the Netherlands (GW) and tentatively to Cologne, see Scholderer, Fifty Essays (1966), pp. 279-80.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML Checklist previously identified as: "Germany: unassigned." at ChL 1671. Changed to 586D with new printing attribution.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.2 x 18.3 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [14]/10 (blank).
Printed in type 107G.
The Hannover StB copy was donated in 1479.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): [I]Ncipit liber Beati Leonis pape Sermonum Et Sermo prunus de ordinacione sua sequitur.

Binding:

16th/17th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; edges colored red. 2 clasps.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, capital strokes and underlining; lombards unrealized. Annotations: Early marginal notations in two different hands, throughout.

Provenance:

Brno (Czech Rep.), Jesuits, inscription: Domus Probationis Soc[ie]tis Jesu Brunae, 1664, partially trimmed (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified shelf marks: --207--, IV.a.3 and IV.g.182, erased (front pastedown) and D 51, blue crayon (front fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Gottschalk, Dec. 1927.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books