Arbor vite crucifixe Jesu.

Accession number:

PML 20491

Author:

Ubertino, da Casale, 1259-approximately 1329.

Published:

Venetiis : per Andrea[m] de Bonettis de Papia, Anno .M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die .xii. Martii [12 March 1485].

Description:

[250] leaves ; 26.5 x 20 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf a2r): INCIPIT PROLOGUS IN LIBRUM QUI INTITULATUR ARBOR VITE CRUCIFIXE JESU. ET DICITUR OPUS UBERTINI DE CASALI. QUI FUIT FRATER PROFESSUS ORDINIS MINORUM BEATI FRANCISCI.
Colophon (leaf H4v): Liber qui intitulatur Arbor vite crucifixe Jesu devotissimi fratris Ubertini de Casali ordinis minoru[m] felicit[er] explicit. Impressus Venetiis p[er] Andrea[m] de Bonettis de Papia. Anno .M.CCCC.LXXXV. Die .xii. Martii. Joa[n]ne Mocenico inclyto principe regnante.
Printed in type 7:77R.
Collation: a-z A⁸ B¹² C-G⁸ H⁶: 250 leaves, leaves a1, B12, and H6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Sheppard describes differences in setting up of sheet b4.
Spaces left for initials.
Tabula and register on leaf H5.
PML missing 2 leaves: a1 and H6 (blanks).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.9 x 19.3 cm.

Binding:

Modern half red goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (26.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in an Italian hand on a few leaves in quires k-l. Manuscript title on bottom edge.

Provenance:

Giuseppe Martini, unidentified catalogue, no. 65 description (rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Martini, 1919.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books