Accession number
PML 22227
Creator
Bartholomaeus, Anglicus, active 13th century.
Object title
De proprietatibus reru[m] / fratris bartholomei anglici.
Published
[Cologne] : [Printer of the 'Flores Sancti Augustini' (Johann Schilling), for William Caxton], [about 1471].
Description
[248] leaves ; 30 cm (royal fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1924.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit prohemiu[m] de proprietatibus reru[m] fratris bartholomei anglici de ordine fratru[m] minorum.
Printed in the type attributed to Schilling 1:100G.
Date derived from Caxton's time spent in Cologne, see his Prologue to the Recuyell (ISTC il00117000).
Collation: [1-24¹⁰ 25⁸]: 248 leaves, leaf [25]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio
William Caxton's involvement is based upon de Worde's statement in his edition of the text (ISTC ib00143000) that Caxton first printed the text at Cologne.
Pinholes in top center and bottom center margins, 2.7 and 7 cm resp. from edge of text block, stops at end of quire 7.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39 x 27.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [25]/8 (blank). Leaf [16]/4.7 is a resetting.
Printed in the type attributed to Schilling 1:100G.
Date derived from Caxton's time spent in Cologne, see his Prologue to the Recuyell (ISTC il00117000).
Collation: [1-24¹⁰ 25⁸]: 248 leaves, leaf [25]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio
William Caxton's involvement is based upon de Worde's statement in his edition of the text (ISTC ib00143000) that Caxton first printed the text at Cologne.
Pinholes in top center and bottom center margins, 2.7 and 7 cm resp. from edge of text block, stops at end of quire 7.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39 x 27.7 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [25]/8 (blank). Leaf [16]/4.7 is a resetting.
Binding
19th-century blue goatskin over paper boards (41 x 30 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
De proprietatibus rerum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (some yellow rubrication on conjugate leaves in quires 18-20 and 23); Roman numeral foliation in top center of the recto leaves and Arabic book numbers in the bottom center. Alpha-numeric quire signature, mostly trimmed. Annotations: Minimal notations in text.
Provenance
H.L.M., inscribed (leaf g9r, at Cap. 61); James Lindsay (1847-1913), Earl of Crawford; Bibliotheca Lindesiana sale, Sotheby's, 13 June 1887, lot 958; unidentified sale catalogue description, tipped-in (front fly leaf); Herschel V. Jones (1861-1928), booklabel (front pastedown); his sale, Anderson, 2 Dec. 1918, lot 294, to Rosenbach for $2500; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Rosenbach, Jan. 1924.
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