Accession number
PML 19609
Object title
Speculum Beatae Mariae Virginis.
Published
[Augsburg] : Anton Sorg, 29 February 1476.
Description
[50] leaves ; (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1913.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): Incipit Speculum beate Marie virginis: compilatum ab humili fratre Bonaventura.
Colophon (leaf [5]/9v): Devotissimi ac prestantissimi doctoris fratris Bonave[n]ture/ tractatus super gaudiosa ambasiata: per archangelu[m] Gabriele[m]/ ad excellentissimam atq[ue] gloriosissima[m] virginem Maria[m] annunciata Speculum marie vocitatus: explicit feliciter. Non quidem cyrographatus/ sed p[er] fidedignum viru[m] Antonium Sorg convicem Augustensem q[uam] diligenter impressus. Anno salutifere incarnationis [Christ]i .M.CCCC.lxxvi. pridie Kalendis marciis.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰]: 50 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [5]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Perhaps by Conradus Holzinger de Saxonia (cf. BBFN Inc p.125) or Michael François; the ascription to Saint Bonaventure is incorrect.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [5]/10 (blank).
Colophon (leaf [5]/9v): Devotissimi ac prestantissimi doctoris fratris Bonave[n]ture/ tractatus super gaudiosa ambasiata: per archangelu[m] Gabriele[m]/ ad excellentissimam atq[ue] gloriosissima[m] virginem Maria[m] annunciata Speculum marie vocitatus: explicit feliciter. Non quidem cyrographatus/ sed p[er] fidedignum viru[m] Antonium Sorg convicem Augustensem q[uam] diligenter impressus. Anno salutifere incarnationis [Christ]i .M.CCCC.lxxvi. pridie Kalendis marciis.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰]: 50 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [5]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Perhaps by Conradus Holzinger de Saxonia (cf. BBFN Inc p.125) or Michael François; the ascription to Saint Bonaventure is incorrect.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [5]/10 (blank).
Binding
Modern half calf, with parchment sides.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication not required. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1913.
Classification
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