Accession number
PML 37878.1
Creator
Ailly, Pierre d', 1350-1420?
Object title
Co[n]corda[n]tia astronomie cu[m] theologia. Co[n]corda[n]tia astronomie cu[m] hystorica narratione. Et elucidariu[m] duo[rum] precedentium / d[omi]ni Petri de Aliaco cardinalis Cameracensis.
Published
Auguste Vindelicorum : Erhardi Ratdolt, .4. nonas Ianuarij .1490 [2 January 1490].
Description
[56] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1943.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf g7v: Opus concordantie astronomie cum theologia necnon hystorice veritat[is] narratione explicit feliciter. Magistri Ioannis Angeli viri peritissimi dilige[n]ti correctione. Erhardiq[ue] Ratdolt mira imprimendi arte: qua nuper Venetiis nu[n]c Auguste Vindelicorum excellit nominatissimus .4. nonas Ianuarij .1490.
Printer's mark, printed in red and black, leaf g8r.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G, 7:92G, and 9:130G.
Signatures: a-g⁸: 56 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Edited by Joannes Angelus.
Woodcuts.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 15.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf g7v: Opus concordantie astronomie cum theologia necnon hystorice veritat[is] narratione explicit feliciter. Magistri Ioannis Angeli viri peritissimi dilige[n]ti correctione. Erhardiq[ue] Ratdolt mira imprimendi arte: qua nuper Venetiis nu[n]c Auguste Vindelicorum excellit nominatissimus .4. nonas Ianuarij .1490.
Printer's mark, printed in red and black, leaf g8r.
Printed in Ratdolt's types 4:76G, 7:92G, and 9:130G.
Signatures: a-g⁸: 56 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Edited by Joannes Angelus.
Woodcuts.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 21.2 x 15.5 cm.
Binding
Quarter 15th-century German (Augsburg) blind-stamped brown sheepskin(?) over beech boards (22 x 16 cm), snew on 3 supports, probably by an Augsburg bindery (includes common Augsburg palmette and Wundervogel stamps, but unidentified); worn and repaired. Front endleaf of paper manuscript waste; plain paper rear pastedown (likely leaf o6 from Leupoldus). 1 clasp, missing.
Variant title
Concordantia astronomiae cum theologia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Füssen (Bavaria), St. Mang, Benedictines, contents inscription, ending: "Ad usum Sancti Mangni in Fuessen, 1588" (leaf a1r of Ailly), monastery dissolved in 1803 and the library went to: Maihingen, Fürstliche Öttingen-Wallerstein Bibliothek, stamp: "F. Öttingen Wallerstein'sche Bibliothek" (rear pastedown), not in library sales: Karl & Faber (Munich), Auk. IX-XI, May and Nov. 1934 and May 1935; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Davis & Orioli, Dec. 1943.
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