Accession number
PML 79803
Creator
Astesano, -1330?
Object title
Summa de casibus conscientiae.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [not after 1469]
Description
[444] leaves ; 40.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1989.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Mentelin's type 5:92G.
A copy at München BSB had the MS date 1469.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10¹²; 11-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸; 17-18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20¹⁰(8+1 (half-leaf): quid est dolor) 21-23¹⁰ 24⁸; 25¹⁰ 26¹⁰(+1) 27-31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33⁶ 34-41¹⁰ 42⁸ 43⁶ 44-46¹⁰]: 444 leaves, leaves [19]/8 and [46]/10 blank. Leaves [20]/5, [20]/8+1 and 2 leaves in quire [26] are half-leaves, with only one column of printed text.
Paper format: Royal folio.
For variants, see CIBN.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39 x 29 cm.
PML copy is quires [1-24] only.
Printed in Mentelin's type 5:92G.
A copy at München BSB had the MS date 1469.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10¹²; 11-14¹⁰ 15-16⁸; 17-18¹⁰ 19⁸ 20¹⁰(8+1 (half-leaf): quid est dolor) 21-23¹⁰ 24⁸; 25¹⁰ 26¹⁰(+1) 27-31¹⁰ 32⁸ 33⁶ 34-41¹⁰ 42⁸ 43⁶ 44-46¹⁰]: 444 leaves, leaves [19]/8 and [46]/10 blank. Leaves [20]/5, [20]/8+1 and 2 leaves in quire [26] are half-leaves, with only one column of printed text.
Paper format: Royal folio.
For variants, see CIBN.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39 x 29 cm.
PML copy is quires [1-24] only.
Binding
Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (40 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports, possibly by the Benedictine monastery of Weissenohe (EBDB w002217, active 1473-1492) but more likely an unidentified Marbach bindery; rebacked. Plain vellum pastedowns; plain endbands. 2 clasps, straps renewed.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials (primary initials with penwork decoration), red rubrics (with manuscript guides), headlines (with manuscript guides), paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript quire signatures, mainly trimmed. Contemporary manuscript alphabetic table added on 8-leaf quire at end (paper: Bull's head/star, see Piccard online, DE0960-2Inc2107.5_999, also used in GW M46490, not after 1463).
Provenance
Marbach (Alsace), Augustinians, inscription: "ad Bibliothecam Canonicorum Regularium Sti. Aug: in Marbach" (leaf [1]/1r); Swann Galleries, 9 Feb. 1989, lot 159A; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, Feb. 1989.
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