Presens Clementis quinti [con]situtio[n]u[m] opus clarissimu[m].

Accession number:

PML 21216

Author:

Clement V, Pope, approximately 1260-1314.

Published:

Rome impressum : per vererabiles viros Leonhardum Pflugel et Georgium Lauer, .M.CCCC.LXXIII. die vero decimaoctava, mensis Marcii [18 March 1473].

Description:

[90] leaves ; 39.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.

Notes:

Title and imprint from colophon, leaf [10]/7r: Presens Clementis quinti [con]stitutio[n]u[m] opus clarissimu[m]. Per uenerabiles uiros Leonhardu[m] pflug[e]l et Georgium lauer Rome impressum. Anno d[omi]ni .M.CCCC.LXXIII. Die uero decimaoctaua. Mens[is] Marcii. Pontificatus .S. in [Christ]o Patris et Domini nostri Domini Sixti diuina prouidentia Pape. Illl. Anno eius secu[n]da. Finit Foeliciter.
Printed in Lauer's types 4:91R and 5:92G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7-9⁸ 10¹⁰]: 90 leaves, leaves [1]/1-2 and [10]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.3 x 27.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1-2 (blanks).

Binding:

18th-century French red morocco over paper boards (39.5 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gold edges. Gilt armorial of Morgan added later.

Variant Title:

Presens Clementis quinti consitutionum opus clarissimum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Manuscript headlines at top right corners. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout text.

Provenance:

Etienne Charles Loménie de Brienne (1727-1794), sale, Index librorum ab inventa typographia ad annum 1500 (1791), I: 298 (no. 6), for Fr.141 to Theophile Belin (for Wodhull?); Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscription, 16 July 1792 (front endleaf 1 recto), purchased at Lomenie sale for £2.5.6, through inheritance to his sister-in-law: Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne: J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 758 for £3.5.0 to: George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel and armorial booklabel: 3 stars and fox ermine (front pastedown), notes and price code: [chi lambda], purchased Jan. 1886 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 2064; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1920.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books