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Le schele de paradis de sainct Augustin.

Accession number
PML 54689.2
Creator
Guigo II, -1188.
Object title

Le schele de paradis de sainct Augustin.

Published

[Toulouse] : [Henricus Mayer], [approximately 1488].

Description

[16] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 19.5 cm. (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1964.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Mayer's types 3:71G, 4:135G, and 5:116G.
Signatures: a-b⁸: 16 leaves, leaf b8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Attributed to Pseudo-Augustinus, but the true author is Guigo II Carthusiensis (CIBN).
Variants are known with and without a woodcut on title verso.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13 cm.
PML copy has woodcut on leaf a1v.
Binding
19th-century French full red morocco over paper boards (19.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Chambolle-Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Schele paradis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks (same as in PML 54689.1). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
H.P. Kraus, cat. 98 (1964), no. 35; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Kraus, Dec. 1964.
Classification
Century
Department