[Super secundo libro Sententiarum].

Accession number:

PML 21130

Author:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Published:

Cologne : Heinrich Quentell, 8 September 1481.

Description:

[338] leaves : ill. (woodcut) ; 31 cm (fol. and 4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.

Notes:

Title from ISTC, derived from colophon.
Colophon (leaf xx5v): Opus preclarissimum secu[n]di scripti: sancti doctoris Thomae aquinatis q[uem] dilige[n]tissi[m]o studio correctum. impressumq[ue] p[er] me Henricum quentell Colon[iensis]. incolam. sexto ydus Septe[m]bris finit feliciter. anno salutis .M.CCCC.lxxxi.
Printed in Quentell's types 1:102G and 2:150G.
Collation: a¹⁰ b-o⁸ p⁶ r-y⁸ aa-tt⁸ vv-yy⁶: 338 leaves, leaf yy6 blank. Leaf a[1] unsigned, leaf a[2] signed a1.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto
Salvator mundi woodcut (leaf a[1]v).
From Quentell's first press (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20.5 cm, except leaves s2.7, s4.5, and quire t: 29 x 18.9 cm (Royal quarto).

Binding:

Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (31 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Lilie II workshop, Cologne (EBDB w002535), active ca. 1470-1488; repaired by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. 2 clasps, wanting; wedge-shaped catches with incised line/feather design.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining; blue initial with elaborate red penwork decoraton in Lower Rhenish style (leaf a1r). Annotations: Marginal notations and markings throughout, perhaps by Eberhardus de Amersfordia. Manuscript title (leaf a[1]r).

Provenance:

Eberhardus de Amersfordia (i .e., Amersfoort, the Netherlands) (d. ca. 1492), inscription: Ex libris fratris everhardi Amm[er]sfordiens[is] (leaf a[1]r); Fr. Theodoricus of s'Hertogenbosch, 1542, inscription: Fr. Theodoric[us] a Buscoduc[um] (i.e. s'Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands) mei habit usum ord[inis] p[re]dicatorii [con]vent[us] Coloni[ensis] 1542 (leaf a[1]r); Cologne, Dominicans, inscription (shelf mark?): Ord[in]is p[redicatorum] Colo[n]ie[nsis] A. 187 (leaf a1r); armorial bookplate, unidentified (Fetherstonhaugh?): chevron between 3 feathers with motto "Honour is the reward of virtue"; George Dunn (1864-1912), Wooley Hall, booklabel (front pastedown) and notes (front endleaf 1 recto), purchased July 1898; his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1673, to Francis Edwards; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1920.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books