Accession number:
PML 16572
Published:
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1470]
Description:
[144] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes:
Title from prologue incipit, leaf [1]/4r: Prologus sup[er] tractatu[m] instruct[i]one seu direct[i]one simpliciu[m] [con]fessoru[m]. Editu[m] a d[omi]no Anthonino archiep[iscop]o florentino.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's types 1b:106/111G and 2:115G.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-18⁸]: 144 leaves, leaf [18]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.3 x 15 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [18]/8 (blank).
Binding:
Late 19th/early 20th-century (before 1909) English(?) blind-tooled (in a pastiche of an early style) full brown goatskin over paper boards (22 x 16 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title:
Tractatum instructione seu directione simplicium confessorum
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubricaiton, alternating red and blue initials and red paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Bottenbroich (Frenchen, North Rhine-Westphalia), Cistercians, inscription: "Sum ex libris Fr[atr]um M[o]n[aste]rij B. Mariae Virg: in Bottenbraich ordinis Cisterciensis," 16th/17th century (leaf [1]/1r); Darmstadt, Grossherzoglich-Hessische Hofbibliothek, stamp and duplicate stamp, 19th-early 20th century (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1909.
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