De septem peccatis mortalibus

Accession number:

PML 77024

Author:

Bérenger, de Landorre, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela, approximately 1262-1330.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [C.W.], [not after 1474]

Description:

[14] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1981.

Notes:

The text is traditionally ascribed to Aurelius Prudentius Clemens. See however R. Cruel, Geschichte der deutschen Predigt im Mittelalter, 1879, p. 460.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): "Liber venerabilis Prudencii de septem peccatis mortalibus & virtutibus septem oppositis."
Printed with type 1:110G of the anonymous Strassburg printer "C. W., civis Argentinensis," see BMC I 81. The printer has been identified tentatively as Clas Wencker or Conrad Wolfach, see BMC II 409 and Needham, "Four Strasburg Incunables." Formerly attributed to Koberger, ca. 1475 by Goff.
The Uppsala copy has an owner's date 1474.
Edited by Matthias Farinator.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶]: 14 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 19.6 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 (blank) and [1]/8.

Binding:

19th-century (?) half parchment and corners, using early Hebrew manuscript waste at spine, with sides covered in paste paper over paper boards (28 x 20cm).

Variant Title:

Lumen animae, titulus 75

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: rubrication, red and blue lombards, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining.

Provenance:

Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs Bros., Jan. 1981.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Paste papers (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books