Accession number
PML 17632
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Object title
Ex libris retractationum beati Augustini episcopi, de [con]sensu quattuor euangelista[rum].
Published
[Louvain] : [Johannes de Westfalia], [approximately 1477-1480]
Description
[86] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated from paper evidence (WILC). HPT dated about 1477-83, GW and Polain date about 1481-83.
Printed in Westfalia's type 1B**:89/90G.
Signatures: a-k⁸ l⁶: 86 leaves, leaves a1 and l6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated from paper evidence (WILC). HPT dated about 1477-83, GW and Polain date about 1481-83.
Printed in Westfalia's type 1B**:89/90G.
Signatures: a-k⁸ l⁶: 86 leaves, leaves a1 and l6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 19.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).
Binding
Modern blind-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (28 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Low Countries rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining; primary initials in red or blue with blue or brownish penword decoration. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, leaf a4r only (perhaps same ink as dated inscription, leaf l6v). Two contemporary inscriptions, in 2 hands: "Deus deus meus" and another with date: "27 Novembris i xiiiv(?)" (leaf l6v).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, June 1911.
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