Cassianus de institutis cenobiorum origi[n]e causis et remedijs vitiorum collationib[us] patrum.

Accession number:

PML 128740

Author:

Cassian, John, approximately 360-approximately 435.

Published:

Impresse Basilee : [Johann Amerbach], Anno Domini Mcccclxxxv [after 24 September 1485].

Description:

2 pts. in 1 v. ([208] leaves) : illustrated (woodcut) ; 29 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, 2001.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Caption title, leaf A1r.
Colophon: Expliciunt vigintiquattuor collationes sanctorum patru[m] conscripte ab Ioha[n]ne heremita qui [et] Cassianus dicitur. Impresse Basilee Anno Domini Mcccclxxxv.
Printer from ISTC.
Printed in Amerbach's types 1:185G, 3:92G, and 5:97/106G.
Signatures: [1]¹⁰; A-B⁸ C-F⁶·⁸ G⁸; a-b⁸ c-d⁶ e-h⁶·⁸ i⁸ k-n⁶·⁸ o-t⁸ v⁶: 208 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Two columns. 47 lines and headline. Capital spaces, most with guide letters. Woodcut of the conversion of Paul on leaf b5r (75r).
Initial spaces; with guide letters.
Includes index.

Binding:

15th-century German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (31 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; yellow edges. 2 clasps.

Variant Title:

De institutis cenobiorum origine causis et remediis vitiorum collationibus patrum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: A few marginal nota marks.

Provenance:

Samuel Johann Steinagel, inscription: "ad usum s[??]l Ioh[ann]is steinagel 1503" (leaf [1]/1r); Kaisheim (Bavaria), Cistercians, inscriptions: "BVM in Cæsarea" and "BV Mariæ in Keisersheim," 17th century (leaf [1]/1r); Bernard Quaritch, Early Books cat. (Aug. 2001), no. 17; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Quaritch on the Henry S. Morgan Reference Fund, Oct. 2001.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books