Der sonderen troest.

Accession number:

PML 27135.3

Author:

Jacobus, de Theramo, 1350 or 1351-1417.

Published:

Haerlem : [Jacob Bellaert], M.CCCC.lxxxiiij. opten xv. dach in Februario [15 February 1484].

Description:

[132] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1930.

Notes:

Title from incipit, leaf a2r: [A]lie de ghene die dit tegenwoirdige bouck lesen of hoeren lesen, sullen weten dat dese selue materie heerlick geset is, in latijn in scoender stilen gij enen geleerden exparten clerck inde[n] geesteliken rechten genoemt priester iacopo de theramo archidiaec auersanus ende canoninc aprutinensis. Ende ist noemende der sonderen troest, ...
Imprint from colophon, leaf r4v: Dit bouc is voleyndt tot haerlem inhollant. Anno M.CCCC.lxxxiiij. opten xv. dach in Februario.
Printed in Bellaert's type 1:98/99G. Printer's mark, leaf r5r.
Signatures: a-p⁸ q-r⁶: 132 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: chancery folio.
Woodcuts, attributed to the so-called Haarlem Woodcutter.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over beech boards (28 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports, attributed to the binder of the Carthusians at Wesel (EBDB w004228); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Vellum endleaves. 2 clasps, missing.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Belial. In Dutch

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; a few woodcuts in quire i colored by hand. Annotations: 1 marginal notation in text (leaf g8v). Unidentified Dutch inscriptions (front and rear endleaves).

Provenance:

Wesel (North Rhine-Westphalia), Carthusians (monastery closed 1590), binding and inscription regarding Brother Goessen, 1493: "Hoert. Item dyt boeck toe den katusers op der grauen by wesel [Grav Insel bei Wesel] geleege[n] end dat heeuet broeder goessen geprokeriert. Anno d[omi]ni M cccc xciii. Orate pro eo" and below: "Broeder goβen [illegible]" (Belial, leaf r6v); unidentified German inscriptions, 16th/17th century, in same hand throughout volume, perhaps Johann von Fidem(?) (front endleaf 1 recto; Pelgrim, leaves a1r, a2r, and l6r; Gulden throens, leaf [1]/1r); unidentified Carthusian inscriptions, abraded, "Liber Carthusiae [??]ensis," maybe Xanten, home of the Wesel Carthursians from 1623-1802 (Pelgrim, leaves a1r and a2r); unidentified shelfmark in red crayon: E 42 (Pelgrim, leaf a1r); unidentified German ownership inscription: "Ex libris T. C. M[??] W[??] 1820," abraded (Pelgrim, leaf a2r); unidentified armorial stamp, no. 695 (Pelgrim, leaf a1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Jacques Rosenthal, Feb. 1930.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Department:

Printed Books