Accession number
PML 77
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Object title
Sermo sup[er] or[ati]onem d[omi]nicam.
Published
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zell], [about 1468-1469]
Description
[8] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit sermo beati Augustini ep[iscop]i sup[er] or[ati]onem d[omi]nicam.
Dated by CIBN according to state of type, following BMC. GW and Goff date about 1470.
Printed in Zell's types 1b:106/11G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Library's copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 14.0 cm.
Dated by CIBN according to state of type, following BMC. GW and Goff date about 1470.
Printed in Zell's types 1b:106/11G and 2:115G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Library's copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 14.0 cm.
Binding
Modern gilt-tooled brown goatskin over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Stikeman & Co. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves, preserving former marbled paper and plain endleaves from previous binding; gilt edges.
Variant title
Sermo super orationem dominicam
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal "notum" notations.
Provenance
Anonymous ink inscription citing this copy sold at Nicoll's sale for £2.6.0 (front endleaf -- not Alexander Nicoll's 1828 sales, perhaps William Nicoll, bookseller?); anonymous pencil inscription with price codes, perhaps Sotheby's sale in 1862, lot 157 (rear endleaf -- perhaps Bandinel's sale of 10 Feb.?); William Morris (1834-1896), bibliographic notes by Sydney Cockerell, tipped-in (rear endleaf); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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