Incipit tabula epistolarum beati bernardi primi clareuall[ensis] abbat[is].

Accession number:

PML 77106

Author:

Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.

Published:

In inclito Bruxellensium : [Fratres Vitae Communis], M.cccc.lxxxi. tercio yd[us] aprilis [11 April 1481].

Description:

[176] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased as the gift of Henry S. Morgan, 1981.

Notes:

Title from tabula incipit, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [22]/9r: Explicit i[n]signe opus ep[isto]la[rum] eximie doctine viri b[ea]ti bernardi p[ri]mi clareuall[ensis] abbat[is] in i[n]clito bruxellensium ducat[us] braba[n]tie oppido i[m]pressum ac a[n]no d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxxi. tercio yd[us] aprilis i[n] festo s[e]c[undum] leonis p[ri]mi pape feliciter terminatum.
Printed in the Fratres Vitae Communis type 1a:100G.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-21⁸ 22¹⁰]: 176 leaves, leaves [22]/10 blank. GW collates first quire as [a]⁶, leaves [a]1.6 blanks.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
The Sermones in natali sancti Victoris are divided into Lectiones II-VII following the Epistolae, the last of which is given as Lectio I (CIBN B-260).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.7 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/6 (blank).

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over chamfered wooden boards (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports, probably bound in the lower Rhine area (Wenau?); rebacked. 13th-century(?) German manuscript pastedowns, perhaps from a lectionary, with texts including II Kings (II Samuel) 11:7-20 (front pastedown) and I Kings (I Samuel) 28:1219 and 31:1-6 (rear pastedown); plain endbands; yellow edges.

Variant Title:

Epistolae

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary (Wenau?) rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Wenau (North Rhine-Westphalia), Norbertine (Premonstratensian) Sisters, St. Catherine, inscription: "Ad virgi[n]es wenaugien[sis]," 15th century (front endleaf 1 recto), monastery dissolved in 1802; unidentified modern price codes: "TT[?]/94" (front endleaf 1 verso) and "SKG" (leaf [22]/10r); unidentified French bibliographic inscription (leaf [22]/10r); Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 108, booklabels (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 33 to Lathrop C. Harper, Inc. for: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Henry S. Morgan, April 1981.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

See more information »

Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books