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Doctrinale (Partes I-IV).

Accession number
PML 2990
Creator
Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Object title

Doctrinale (Partes I-IV).

Published

[The Netherlands] : [Prototypography], [approximately 1465-1480]

Description

[42?] leaves ; 20 cm

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
GW dates as: not before 1465, not after 1480. Previously attributed to [Utrecht?: Printer of the Speculum (perhaps Laurens Koster), about 1470-1471].
Printed in type 1:111G.
Collation unknown. GW suggests [1-2⁸ 3¹⁰ 4⁶ 5¹⁰(?)]: 42 leaves.
PML copy on vellum. Leaf 12.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.
Binding
Not bound, mounted to modern paper support.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and capital strokes. Anotations: Contemporary marginal and interlinear notations.
Provenance
Leaf discovered in the binding of an unidentified 1508 edition of Aulus Gellius; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, 1909.
Classification
Century
Department