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Fortalitium fidei.

Accession number
PML 30607
Creator
Alphonso, de Espina, active 15th century.
Object title

Fortalitium fidei.

Published

[Basel] : [Bernhard Richel], [before 10 May 1475]

Description

[240] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 37 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1934.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Richel's type 1:119G.
The Harvard copy was bought on 10 May 1475 (Walsh) and the Freiburg copy rubricated in that year (Sack).
Collation: [1⁸; 2-21¹⁰ 22-25⁸]: 240 leaves.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
Woodcut.
Several incipits printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36 x 27 cm.
PML copy with tabula (quire [1]) bound last.
Binding
Late-19th/early 20th-century parchment over stiff paper boards (37 x 29 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials. Woodcut hand-colored. Annotations: Sporadic marginal notations throughout volume, in several hands.
Provenance
Wrocław (Poland), Hermits of St. Augustine, inscription: "Con[ven]t[us] S. Dorothea Wrati(?) [???]" (leaf [1]/1r, bound at end); Michael Chorenski, active 1608, inscription: "G[e]n[er]os[us] et Magnific[us] D[omi]n[us] Michael Chorenski [domino?] et o[mn]ib[us] s. dicauit. 1608 Ioan. v[e]l Ch[????] 1608" (leaf [1]/8v), bound at end) and "Ecclesiae Chestrianorum(?) Ioan. v[e]l Ch[???] [???] propria brat 1608" (leaf [1]/1r, bound at end); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in 1934.
Classification
Century
Department