Opus de misterio misse.

Accession number: 
PML 193
Author: 
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Published: 
Ulm : Johann Zainer, 29 May 1473.
Description: 
[135] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Opus de misterio misse. Domini fr[atr]is Alberti magni: quondam Episcopi Ratisponensis. Incipit feliciter.
Colophon (leaf [14]/10r): Opes de misterio misse/ D[omi]ni Alberti / mag[ni] autoritate radians! In quo nichil traditur aut docetur/ quod non scriptura[rum] dignis testimonÿs comprobet[ur]! In opido imperiali Ulm/ per Iohanne[m] czeyner de Reutlingen su[m]ma cum diligentia impressum. Anno a nativitate dom[in]i M°cccc°.lxxiii. Die xxix. mensis Maÿ felicit[ur] finit.
Printed in Zainer's type 1:116G.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-9¹⁰ 10¹⁰(7+1: ut eatis) 11-14¹⁰]: 135 leaves. Leaf [10]/7+1 is a half-leaf of 17 lines of text on each side (leaf dimensions approx. 19.5 x 18.5 cm.).
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut initials and decorative border (leaf [2]/1r).
Bearer type visible on leaves [12]/8r, [14]/1v, and [14]/10v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.6 x 19.1 cm.

Binding: 
Modern half brown goatskin with cloth sides over paper boards (27.5 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; edges colored red.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards (painted over woodcut initials, when present), paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, tipped-in (rear fly leaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Woodcuts
Rubrics
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Half bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books