Su[m]ma prelucidissima de mirabili eucaristie sacram[en]to.

Accession number: 
PML 20578
Author: 
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Published: 
Ulm : Johann Zainer, 1474.
Description: 
[7], i-lix, [1], lx-Clxxv leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes: 

Title from incipt of tabula (leaf [1]/1r): Su[m]ma prelucidissima de mirabili eucaristie sacram[en]to disputabilis [et] p[rae]dicabilis deovtissimi fratris alberti magni de ordinis frat[rum] predicato[rum] p[ro]fessione incipit.
Colophon (leaf [19]/10v): Su[m]ma f[rat]ris Alberti magni in tractatulu[m] eucaristie finit felicit[er] Ac per ioh[ann]em zeiner in opido ulm diligenter impressa. Anno domini M°.cccc°.lxxiiii.
Printed in Zainer's type 1:116G.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-7¹⁰ 8¹⁰(3+1) 9-17¹⁰ 18⁸ 19¹⁰]: 183 leaves. Additional leaf contains text omitted after leaf [8]/3r, printed on verso only, with note to reader printed at bottom of [8]/3r.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Woodcut border (leaf [2]/4r) and woodcut initials; printed paragraph marks.
Bearer type on leaf [2]/3r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.2 x 19.8 cm.

Binding: 
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (28 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Summa de sacramento Eucharistiae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red capital strokes and abbreviations highlighted (leaf [8]/3+1 and quire [15] only and the same). Annotations: Modern pencil marginal notations in English (by Daniel Talcott Smith?).

Provenance: 
Daniel Talcott Smith (b. 1813, changed name to Daniel Smith Talcott in 1863), of Bangor Theological Seminary, siganture, 1841 (preserved from previous binding, tipped-in to front fly leaf); unidentified English sale catalogue description, lot 60 (rear pastedown, likely how Murray acquired it); Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919); his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 18 to Quaritch for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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