Accession number:
PML 18069
Published:
[Basel] : [Printer of the 'Modus legendi abbreviaturas'], [approximately 1484]
Description:
[48] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1904-5.
Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Quinti oratii flacci sermonu[m] liber prim[us] ad me coenatem.
Colophon (leaf f10r): Expliciunt sermones oratii.
Printed in types 1:91G and 2:180G assigned to the Printer of the 'Modus legendi abbreviaturas'.
Collation: a-b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸ f¹⁰: 48 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Originally assigned to Quentell in BMC (I 272).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20 cm.
PML Checklist enters this work under Heinrich Quentell || Second press || Division B.
Binding:
19th-century gilt-tooled hard-grained brown morocco over paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by C. Lewis (bound after Thorold sale). Plain vellum pastedowns, paper fly leaves; plain endbands; all edges gilt.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Marginal clover marks in text.
Provenance:
Henricus van Willenbergh, inscription: Iste liber p[er]tinet Hynric[us] va[n] Willenbergh (leaf f10v); John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate (front pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 974; Brayton Ives (1840-1914), monogram booklabel, no. 453 (front pastedown), sold for $75; unidentified auction, Bangs & Co., NY, 22 Jan. 1902, lot 253; John Paul Bocock (1856-1903), bookplate dated 1902 (his catalogue cites an unidenfitied Nicol's sale where the book sold for £20); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from J.P. Bocock, 1904-1905 (accessioned 1908).
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