Accession number:
PML 17723
Published:
[Strasbourg] : [Heinrich Eggestein], [not after 1474]
Description:
[90] leaves ; 40.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes:
Title from tabula incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Eggestein's type 5:93G.
The Wellcome Library copy has a purchaser's date of 1474; G. Piccard in AGB 8 (1967) col. 25-322 dates about 1472 from the paper used.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-5¹⁰ 6⁸ 7-8¹⁰ 9⁸ 10¹⁰]: 90 leaves, leaf [1]/4 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40 x 27.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/4 (blank).
Binding:
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with parchment sides, over boards (40.5 x 28.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by C.& C. McLeish. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Tabula epistolarum beati Bernhardi abbatis Clarevallensis
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized; later initial added in pen (leaf [2]/1r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Baumburg an der Alz (Bavaria), Augustinians, inscription: Monasterij Baumburg, 16th century (leaf [1]/1r); Ellis, cat. 131 (1910), no. 62 (description pasted to rear pastedown), for £18.18.0; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Ellis, July 1911.
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