Stabilimentorum Rhodioru[m] Militu[m].

Accession number: 
PML 204
Author: 
Caoursin, Guillaume, -1501.
Published: 
Ulm : Johann Reger, 23 August 1496.
Description: 
[94] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

21 woodcuts and woodcut initials. Full-page author portrait of Caoursin holding Stabilimentorum (leaf m6v).
Collation note at end of colophon: a b c d e f g h i k l m Omnes sunt quaterni: excepto f q[ua] est ternus.
Collation: a-e⁸ f⁶ g-m⁸: 94 leaves, leaves m7-8 blank.
Colophon (leaf m6r): Stabilimenta militum hierosolymitanorum diligentissime Ulme impressa p[er] Johannem Reger de Kemnat. Anno ab incarnatione Dominica. Millesimoquadringentesimononagesimosexto. Die .xxiii. Augusti.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.4 x 18.1 cm, trimmed.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: m7-8 (blanks). Leaves m1 and m2 bound in reverse order.
Printed in Reger's type 3:92G.
Title from incipit (leaf a1v): Prohemium in volumen stabilimentorum Rhodioru[m] Militu[m] Sacri ordinis hospitalis sancti Iohannis Hierosolymitani.

Binding: 
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over stiff boards (27.5 x 18.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Checklist title: Stabilimenta militum Hierosolymitanorum

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: No rubrication required. On woodcut initial painted in red (leaf d1v). Annotations: One marginal notation, trimmed (leaf d1v).

Provenance: 
John Calvert, signature (leaf a1r); [his sale, Sotheby's, 8 June 1894?]; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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