Accession number
PML 19440
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Object title
Incipit prolog[us] beati augustini aurelii ypponen[sis] episcopi in libro de mirabilibus sacre scripture.
Published
[Utrecht] : [Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt], [1473-1474]
Description
[56] leaves ; 26.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Ketelaer and de Leempt's type 1A:122G.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5-6⁸]: 56 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.1 x 19.5 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Ketelaer and de Leempt's type 1A:122G.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5-6⁸]: 56 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.1 x 19.5 cm.
Binding
Modern English gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over paper boards (26.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Francis Bedford. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes. Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations, including corrections and nota bene marks. Lenghty contemporary manuscript inscription at end: "No[ta] de or[dinati]o[n]e(?)" (leaf [6]/8v).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1912.
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