Epistola in libru[m] co[m]modoru[m] ruralium.

Accession number:

PML 18736

Author:

Crescenzi, Pietro de', approximately 1233-approximately 1320.

Published:

[Augsburg] : per Johannem Schüβler, circiter xiiii. kalendas marcias. Anno ... Millesimo quadringentesimo et septuagesimo prime [about 16 February 1471].

Description:

[212] leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Petri de crescentiis civis. Bononiensis epistola in libru[m] co[m]modoru[m] ruralium.
Colophon (leaf [21]/6r): Petri de crescenciis civis bonon[iensis]. ruraliu[m] co[m]modorum libri duodecim finiunt feliciter p[er] iohanne[m] Schüβler civem augustensem impressi. circit[er] xiiii. kalendas marcias. Anno vero a partu virginis salutifero Millesimo quadringentesimo et septuagesimo prime [etc].
Printed in Schüssler's type 1:117G.
Collation: [1-17¹⁰ 18¹⁰(10+1: "qui pars tercia") 19¹⁰(10+1: "vulpes in caveis") 20¹⁰(10+1: "viridariis fossorem") 21⁸]: 212 leaves, leaves [21]/7-8 blank. GW and BMC collate as: [1-18¹⁰ 19¹² 20-21¹⁰]: 212 leaves, leaves [21]/8-10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 21.3 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (31 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Johann Schüssler in Augsburg (EBDB w001512/Kyriss 90, a.k.a. Wundervogel or Fuchsvogel-Meister I). Contemporary plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; edges colored yellow. 1 clasp, wanting. Evidence of former chain attachment on rear board.

Variant Title:

Ruralia commoda

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards and L-brackets/underlining; major lombards in red/green with alternating penwork in typical Augsburg style, likely by Schüssler workshop. Painted bas-de-page foliate border with coat-of-arms (not in Siebmacher or Zimmermann), likely by Schüssler workshop (leaf [1]/1r). Annotations: Contemporary foliation in top center of recto (beginning on leaf [1]/5r), including final blanks and with folio references added to tabula. Contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures at bottom gutter margin of rectos. No notations in text.

Provenance:

Coat-of-arms, unidentified: chevron on a party per pale field that is half white/silver and black (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified shelf marks: O 13, 15th century (top board paper label and front pastedown), I [?]5(?) (spine), 91 (front pastedown), D. 4. F. (front pastedown), and 104 J 13, on green paper label, 18th/19th century (front board); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Jacques Rosenthal, Dec. 1908.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Point holes (Printing)

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Chained bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books