Accession number
PML 96
Creator
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153.
Object title
Incipit speculu[m] b[ea]ti Bernhardi abbatis de honestate vite.
Published
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1473]
Description
[8] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Author identified as Pseudo-Bernardus in GW.
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated about 1475 in CIBN.
Printed in Zel's type 2:115G.
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.9 x 14.9 cm.
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated about 1475 in CIBN.
Printed in Zel's type 2:115G.
Library's copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.9 x 14.9 cm.
Binding
20th-century half brown goatskin, with parchment sides, over paper boards (21.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red paragraph marks and capital strokes (leaves 1r and 8v only). Annotations: Some underlining and nota marks on last few leaves.
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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