Psalterium Benedictinum cum canticis et hymnis.

Accession number:

PML 14

Uniform title:

Bible. Psalms. Latin. 1459.

Published:

[Mainz] : Per Iohannem Fust ciuem Maguntinum, et Petrum Schoifher de Gernβheym, Millesimo cccc.lix .xxix. die. mensis Augusti [29 August 1459].

Description:

[136] leaves ; 45 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [14]/8v: Presens psalmo[rum] codex: venustate capitaliu[m] decoratus, rubricationibusq[ue] sufficienter distinctus, adinuenc[i]one artificiosa imprimendi ac caracterizandi: absq[ue] ulla calami exarac[i]one sit effigiatus, et ad laudem dei ac honore[m] sancti Iacobi est [con]su[m]mat[us]. Per Ioha[nn]em fust ciue[m] magu[n]tinu[m], et Petru[m] Schoifher de gernβheym clericu[m]. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo cccc.lix .xxix. die. mensis Augusti.
Printed in Fust and Schoeffer's types 1:286G and 2:234G.
Collation: [1-11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13¹⁰ 14⁸]: 136 leaves, ±[6]/1. Variant collation (BMC and Bod-inc): [1-5¹⁰ 6⁸(8+2) 7-11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13¹⁰ 14⁸]
Paper format: Imperial folio
Printed in accordance with the Breviary of the Union of Bursfeld (Congregatio Bursfeldensis), also known as the Observantia per Germaniam (BMC).
Primary initials printed in two colors, with smaller initials and rubrics printed in red.
Blanks left for manuscript completion of the musical staves and notation.
Leaf [6]/1 is a cancel in most copies, see Martin Boghardt, "The Second Disturbance in Quire F: an Unsolved Mystery in Fust and Schöffer's 'Psalterium Benedictinum' of 1459," in The German Book 1450-1750: Studies Presented to David L. Paisey in His Retirement, ed. J. L. Flood and W. A. Kelley (London, 1995), 9-21.
PML copy printed on vellum.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 43.3 x 31 cm.

Binding:

Early 19th-century full gilt-tooled, straight-grained red morocco over heavy paper boards (45 x 33 cm), sewn on 6 supports, with the armorials of Sykes and Morgan. Plain brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain vellum endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Psalterium Benedictinum congregationis Bursfeldensis

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials (in the few places where required). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Music staves and notation added in manuscript.

Provenance:

Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), purchased 1806, his sale, Evans, 11 May 1824, lot 149, for £136.10.0 to Thorpe; John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1650, for £4,950 to Quaritch; Bernard Quaritch, Rough List, No. 70, 20 Jan. 1885, no. 451; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Quaritch, Oct. 1900.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum printings (Printing)

Department:

Printed Books