Tractat[us] beati Bernhardi de pla[n]ctu b[ea]t[a]e Marie.

Accession number

PML 92

Creator

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

Object title

Tractat[us] beati Bernhardi de pla[n]ctu b[ea]t[a]e Marie.

Published

[Cologne] : [Printer of the 'Historia S. Albani' (Johann Guldenschaff or Conrad Winters, de Homborch?)], [before 1 December 1472]

Description

[6] leaves ; 19.5 cm (4to)

Credit line

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes

In fact by Oglerius de Tridino (cf. W. Baier, Untersuchungen zu den Passionsbetrachtungen in der Vita Christi des Ludolf von Sachsen. Bd. 2. Salzburg, 1977 (Analecta Cartusiana 44,2), p. 279f.) (BSB-Ink)
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC. BSB-Ink attributes printing to Conrad Winters.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Historia S. Albani' type 1:ca.102G.
Collation: [1⁶]: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 12.5 cm.

Binding

19th-century English full green goatskin over paper boards (19.5 x 13 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.

Variant title

Title in ISTC : De planctu B. Mariae Virginis.

Inscriptions/Markings

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

Provenance

Unidentified monogram cypher (rear endleaf 3 recto); Sotheby's London, Catalogue of a portion of the library of a collector in failing health, 19 March 1896, lot 81, to Ellis for £1.12; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and purchase notes: No. 235, 18/11/96 and price code: l/l/- (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification

Incunable Collection

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Century

15th century

Department

Printed Books

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