Accession number
PML 77102
Creator
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Object title
Sermones Bernardi in Duytssche.
Published
To Zwolle : bi mi Peter van Os van Breda, .m.cccc. ende xcv. op ons here hemeluaerts auont inden meye [27 May 1495].
Description
[4], I-CCLXXIIII, [1] leaves (with mistakes) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 29.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. Paul Mellon, 1981.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf I/1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf C5v: Dit boeck is gheeyndet to zwolle in den stichte van utricht ter eren godes ende zijnder lieuer moeder maria. en[de] oeck med[er] tot heyl en[de] salicheyt alre ghoeder kerstene[n] me[n]sche[n] bi mi peter van os van breda. wone[n]de te zwolle Inden iaer ons heren .m.cccc. en[de] xcv. op o[n]s here hemeluaerts auont inde[n] meye. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Van Os's types 6:125G and 8A:100G.
Signatures: I⁴; a-y⁶ A-G⁶ H⁴ ²I⁶ K⁶ L⁴ M-Y⁶ A⁶ B⁴ C⁶: 280 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
27 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf C5v: Dit boeck is gheeyndet to zwolle in den stichte van utricht ter eren godes ende zijnder lieuer moeder maria. en[de] oeck med[er] tot heyl en[de] salicheyt alre ghoeder kerstene[n] me[n]sche[n] bi mi peter van os van breda. wone[n]de te zwolle Inden iaer ons heren .m.cccc. en[de] xcv. op o[n]s here hemeluaerts auont inde[n] meye. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Van Os's types 6:125G and 8A:100G.
Signatures: I⁴; a-y⁶ A-G⁶ H⁴ ²I⁶ K⁶ L⁴ M-Y⁶ A⁶ B⁴ C⁶: 280 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
27 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20.5 cm.
Binding
Contemporary Netherlandish blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Vellum manuscript pastedowns (rear pastedown includes music with heighted neumes) and plain paper front pastedown; plain endbands; red edges. 2 clasps, missing.
Variant title
Sermones de tempore et de sanctis [Dutch]
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining; one initial in dark blue (leaf a1r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Sister Katherine van Esch (North Brabant), contemporary Dutch inscription indicating the nun's donation of the volume: "suster katerin(?) va[n] esch," followed in slightly different ink and hand by: "heeft dit (ke) boeck int / ghemen[en] (ke) ghegheve[n] / bidt voer haer," the initials "ke" split between the two lines of the inscription are likely Katrin van Esch (leaf C5v); Vincent van Gogh (1866-1911), cousin of the painter, bookplate (front pastedown); Carl J. Ulmann (b. 1863), book label and lending label from Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition "The Arts of the Book," May-Sept 1924 (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby-Parke Bernet, 15 April 1952, lot 25; Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 28, booklabels (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 211; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Mr. Paul Mellon, April 1981.
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