Incipiunt sermones d[omi]nicales sup[er] euangelia et epistolas per totum annu[m] / editi a fratre Hugone de Prato ordinis predicatorum.

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Accession number:

PML 78473

Author:

Hugo de Prato Florido.

Published:

[Reutlingen] : [Michael Greyff], [about 1478]

Description:

[270] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)

Notes:

Title from incipit, leaf [2]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Identified (tentatively) by Hain 8998 as a Louvain edition, without query in Copinger, Camp and Goff H-512 to Johann de Paderborn (Westphalia).
Printed in Greyff's types 1:93G and 2:120G.
Collation: [1⁶; 2-7¹⁰/⁸ 8⁸ 9¹⁰ 10-11⁸ 12-13¹⁰ 14-15⁸ 16¹⁰ 17⁸ 18¹⁰ 19-20⁸ 21¹⁰ 22⁸ 23¹⁰ 24⁶ 25¹⁰ 26-28⁸ 29¹⁰ 30⁸ 31¹⁰]: 270 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 28.5 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary Austrian blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (41.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 3 supports, probably bound in Salzburg by the "Art Wien Jagdrollen-Meister" bindery (EBDB w002500, active 1490-1516, bindery also known as München Blattwerk, Brokatmuster mit Lilienansatz, and Salzburg IV). Plain paper pastedowns (scale watermarks). 2 clasps, missing.

Variant Title:

Incipiunt sermones dominicales super evangelia et epistolas per totum annum, editi a fratre Hugone de Prato ordinis predicatorum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoraton: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, L-brackets, and capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary title inscription: "Sermo[n]es hugo[n]is de prato" and "[?]orc Gott" (leaf [1]/1r) and marginal notations, primarily indicating textual divisions, with minimal textual notations. 19th-century German bibliographical annotations (leaf [1]/1v).

Provenance:

Unidentified inscriptions: "Ziro lectoratu Siezacensi in Salzburgo" and shelfmark(?): "1 4[6] 29" (lear [1]/1r); unidentified bookplate, torn away, a black imperial eagle on yellow paper is partially visible (front pastedown); Adam Kaiser, Pfarrer in Taubenheim in der Oberlausitz, inscription: "Librum hunc a Reverendo patre prior in Frisach [michi] accepi A.D. 1619. Sum iam Adami Caesaris indigni sacerdotis" (leaf [2]/1r); unidentified paper title label: "Hugonis de Prato Sermones. Sine L. A. et Typ." (spine); Austria, Bundesdenkmalamt, stamp (front pastedown); Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl (d. ca. 1960?), of Achstetten, his sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 95; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Bloomsbury on the Fellows Fund in memory of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, Nov. 1985.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books