Accession number
PML 20696-97
Creator
Astesano, -1330?
Object title
Cupiens ego franter astexanus comilator huius summe ...
Published
Cologne : Heinrich Quentell, [31 August 1479].
Description
[516] leaves ; 41 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from incipit of register, leaf a2r.
Text begins on leaf b1r with caption: In nominie d[omi]ni amen. Incipit summa de casibus et honore[m] dei co[m]pilata p[er] fratre[m] astexanu[m] de ordine frat[rum] mino[rum].
Imprint from colophon, leaf ff
Printed in Quentell's types 1:102G and 2:150G.
PML Checklist identifies as Quentell's first press.
A variant issue of GW 2755, with signatures a, b, ē and ff in a new setting (Goff).
Signatures: a¹² b-[c-e]-f¹⁰ g-h⁸ i¹⁰ k⁸ l-n¹⁰ o⁶; 1¹⁰ ²a-i¹⁰; A¹⁰ B⁸ C-D⁶ E-I¹⁰ K⁸ L-Z¹⁰ [et] ā b' c̄ d'¹⁰ ē ff⁸: 516 leaves, leaves a1 and ²i10 blank. Leaves a1-2 unsigned, a3 signed a bb, a4 signed a bbb, etc.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Leaf a2r with woodcut border of Three Kings.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 29 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank). Quire ²b misbound after quire b. Printed stub glued in after leaf B8 but apparently not a missing leaf.
Text begins on leaf b1r with caption: In nominie d[omi]ni amen. Incipit summa de casibus et honore[m] dei co[m]pilata p[er] fratre[m] astexanu[m] de ordine frat[rum] mino[rum].
Imprint from colophon, leaf ff
Printed in Quentell's types 1:102G and 2:150G.
PML Checklist identifies as Quentell's first press.
A variant issue of GW 2755, with signatures a, b, ē and ff in a new setting (Goff).
Signatures: a¹² b-[c-e]-f¹⁰ g-h⁸ i¹⁰ k⁸ l-n¹⁰ o⁶; 1¹⁰ ²a-i¹⁰; A¹⁰ B⁸ C-D⁶ E-I¹⁰ K⁸ L-Z¹⁰ [et] ā b' c̄ d'¹⁰ ē ff⁸: 516 leaves, leaves a1 and ²i10 blank. Leaves a1-2 unsigned, a3 signed a bb, a4 signed a bbb, etc.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Leaf a2r with woodcut border of Three Kings.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 29 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank). Quire ²b misbound after quire b. Printed stub glued in after leaf B8 but apparently not a missing leaf.
Binding
20th-century half brown goatskin, with brown cloth sides, over paper boards (41 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Jas. MacDonald Co., New York. Plain brown paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves and preserving endleaves from previous binding. Plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Cologne/lower Rhine rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red headlines (2 different hands), capital strokes, and underlining; primary initials in red and blue with red penwork decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Leaf R8r missing bottom margin, with early repair and missing text replaced in contemporary manuscript.
Provenance
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelfmark: C 104 and bibliographic notes (vol. I, front endleaf 3 recto, vol. II, front endleaf 3 recto has C mark only) and cut-out armorial (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), part of library inherited by his son: Cornelius Inglis, M.D. (1824-1907), booklabel (front pastedown), sold part of his father's collection, Sotheby's, 31 July 1871, his sale, 11 June 1900; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedowns of each volume, preserved from previous binding), notes and price code: [delta chi phi], purchased July 1906 (front endleaf 3 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1834 purchased by Quaritch for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Nov. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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