Accession number:
PML 17616
Published:
[Cologne] : Impressus per me Conradum de Homborch, [between 18 March and 20 September 1479]
Description:
[112] leaves ; 20.5 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes:
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m10r: Liber de vita [et] moribus ph[ilosoph]orum impress[us] per me Conradu[m] de Homborch. Admissus aut[em] ac approbatus ab alma vniuersitate Coloniensi definit feliciter.
Printed in Winters's type 1:99G.
PML copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Format recorded as 4to in GW and Polain.
Signatures: [1⁸ 2⁶]; a-l⁸ m¹⁰: 112 leaves.
Paper format: Royal octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 14 cm.
Binding:
15th-century blind-filleted calf over wooden boards (21 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports, probably by a Cologne region/Lower Rhine bindery; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Renewed paper pastedowns and endleaves. Original vellum quire guards retained. 1 clasp, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary Lower Rhine rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures in quires [1-2].
Provenance:
Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843), armorial bookplate with shelfmark: VII D.d.41 (front endleaf 1 recto), not in Bibliotheca Sussexiana sale, Evans, 1 July 1844; William M. Tilghman, armorial bookplates with motto: "Spes alit agricolam" (front pastedown and front endleaf 1 recto) and bibliographic notes dated Sept. 1849; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, June 1911.
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