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Glosa monachi una cum textu Alexandri.

Accession number
PML 77095
Creator
Alexander, de Villa Dei.
Object title

Glosa monachi una cum textu Alexandri.

Published

Parisius : per Peturm [sic] Levet, Anno domini .M.CCCC.Lxxxix. ultima Augusti [31 August 1489]

Description

[162] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1981.
Notes
Title from half-title page, with Levet's device, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf t7v: Opus hoc: haud inutile iuvenibus exaratu[m] Parisius magna vigilantia per Peturm [sic] Levet finit feliciter Anno d[omi]ni .M.CCCC.Lxxxix. ultima Augusti.
Printed in Levet's types 2:114G and 1*:82G.
Signatures: a-t⁸: 162 leaves, leaf t8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 36-50/51 lines depending on type. Capital spaces. Printed headlines.
Commentary by Monachus Lombardus. Edited by Maturinus de Barda.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 21 cm.
Binding
Contemporary English blind-tooled dark calf over wooden boards (30 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 supports possibly by the Bat Bindery; modern repairs to back and renewed pastedowns/endleaves. Previous pastedowns of 2 vellum manuscript bifolia preserved: probably 14th century, French verse romance in rhyming couplets.
Variant title
Doctrinale (Partes I-IV)
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary English rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes, primary initials with penwork decoration. Annotations: Some contemporary marginal and interlinear notations, primarily noting the "versus". 16th-century price inscription:[?] xii d[enarii] (leaf a1r).
Provenance
Thomas Lad, inscription: "Iste liber pertinet, have yt well in mynd / ad Thoma lad, both curtise [and] kynd / I pray to Ihesu to have hyme well in mynd / And bryng him to the Blesse that wen shal have end" (a version related to DIMEV 2700, 2700.5), followed by a lengthy inscription, inked out but partially visible, 16th century (leaf t8v); R. Jenkinson, signature, 16th/17th century (leaf a1r); St. Alban's School (Hertfordshire, England), sale Sotheby's, 19 Nov. 1974, lot 185 to Maggs for £750; Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), armorial booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's (NY), 8 April 1981, lot 118; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, April 1981.
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Department