Disputacio i[n]ter clericum et milite[m] sup[er] potestate prelatis ecclesie atq[ue] principib[us] terra[rum] commissa sub forma dyalogi incipt feliciter.

Accession number:

PML 19443

Published:

[Cologne] : [Printer of Augustinus, 'De fide'], [about 1473]

Description:

[16] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.

Notes:

According to GW, the occasional ascription to Guilielmus Ockam is erroneous; the probable author was Petrus de Bosco (Pierre Dubois) (Goff).
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Augustinus 'De fide' type 1:105G.
The printer has been identified with Goiswin Gops and with Johann Schilling (cf. Corsten(Anfänge) pp.44-45 and Needham, Ars impressoria, pp.126-28).
Collation: [1-2⁸]: 16 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.9 x 14.1 cm.

Binding:

18th/19th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges. Blank wove paper bound in after work to fill out the binding.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; primary initial in red and black, gold center with blue cross. Same rubricator's hand in PML 16784/ChL 217. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Unidentified shelfmark: I.N.9. (front endleaf 1 verso); Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park, bookplate and monogram booklabel (front pastedown), Syston Park Library sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1406; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1912.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Gold tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books