Accession number
PML 75892
Creator
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Object title
Sermones beati bernardi abbatis clareuallis.
Published
Mainz : Peter Schoeffer, [14 April 1475].
Description
[235] leaves ; 41.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Hans P. Kraus, 1979.
Notes
Title from incipit, leaf [1]/1r: Sermones beati bernardi abbatis clareuallis incipiu[n]t feliciter.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [25]/7r: Anno natiuitatis [christ]i .M.cccc.lxxv. decimaquarta die mensis aprilis In nobili vrbe Magu[n]cia/ no[n] atrame[n]ti calamo cannave! sed artificiosa quada[m] adinue[n]tione imprimendi ac caracterizandi Sermones hos Beati bernardi abbatis clareuallis cu[n]ctis potenti annuente deo Petrus schoyffer de gernβheym suis consigna[n]do scutis feliciter conu[m]matuit. [printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's type 5:118G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5⁶(5+1: liberam matrem); 6-9¹⁰ 10⁸; 11-15¹⁰ 16-17⁸ 18⁶; 19-25¹⁰]: 235 leaves, leaf [25]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Rubrics, colophon, and printer's mark printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.6 x 28 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [25]/7r: Anno natiuitatis [christ]i .M.cccc.lxxv. decimaquarta die mensis aprilis In nobili vrbe Magu[n]cia/ no[n] atrame[n]ti calamo cannave! sed artificiosa quada[m] adinue[n]tione imprimendi ac caracterizandi Sermones hos Beati bernardi abbatis clareuallis cu[n]ctis potenti annuente deo Petrus schoyffer de gernβheym suis consigna[n]do scutis feliciter conu[m]matuit. [printer's mark]
Printed in Schoeffer's type 5:118G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁸ 5⁶(5+1: liberam matrem); 6-9¹⁰ 10⁸; 11-15¹⁰ 16-17⁸ 18⁶; 19-25¹⁰]: 235 leaves, leaf [25]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Rubrics, colophon, and printer's mark printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.6 x 28 cm.
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled full red goatskin over heavy paper boards (41.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports by W.H. Smith & Son for Hornby. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et De diversis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red and blue initials, red paragraph marks, Roman numeral foliation, and capital strokes; primary initials in red and blue with penwork decoration. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations (corrections, comments, and NB marks) sporadically throughout text, in same hand as alphabetical index (leaves [25]/9v-10v). Contemporary manuscript Arabic quire numerals and alpha-numeric quire signatures, mostly trimmed. Contemporary manuscript title (bottom edge).
Provenance
Charles H. St John Hornby, bookplates and armorial binding; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Hans P. Kraus, Dec. 1979.
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