Meditaciones jordani : de vita et passione cristi

Accession number: 
PML 195843.1
Author: 
Jordan, von Quedlinburg, approximately 1299-1380.
Published: 
Lubicensi : per me Lucam Brandis, Anno d[omi]ni M.CCCC.xcii [1492].
Description: 
[40] leaves ; 15 cm (8vo)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2012.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf D8r: Exercitium devotissimi fratris iordani d[e] vita [et] passio[n]e [et] resurrectione ih[es]u [christ]i Ad laudem dei co[m]pletu[m] est in mercuriali opido Lubicensi p[er] me Lucam brandis Anno d[omi]ni M.CCCC.xcii.
Printed in Brandis's types 6:160G and 10:81/82G.
Signatures: [A]-E⁸: 40 leaves, quire A unsigned.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Rosarium beatae Mariae virginis begins on f. D8r with incipit caption, text beings D8v.
Not in Goff.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 14.7 x 9.5 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century(?) pastiche binding: quarter blind-tooled calf over paper boards (15.3 x 10 cm), on three double bands, with spine detached. Leather is reused from a late-15th/early-16th century Northeim (Lower Saxony) binding; bindery identified in Schwenke/Schunke II, 196 as "aus Northeim aber fremd," EBDB w000982. Front four endleaves have a watermark of a horse jumping over the initials EF; rear four endleaves are 17th/18th-century paper with Amsterdam armorial watermark. Pastedowns: manuscript devotional text in Low German, fifteenth century, with marginal Latin annotations partially trimmed.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; rubrication does not match that in Salicetus. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Front endleaves with 19th-century(?) pencil notes in shorthand.

Provenance: 
Unidentified convent ownership inscription: "Iste liber pertinet sorori [abraded]," early 16th-century (f. A1r of Jordanus); Galerie Bassenge (Berlin), 18 October 2012, lot 255, to Morgan; Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, October 2012.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Paper boards (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books