Accession number
PML 21149
Creator
Caracciolo, Roberto, 1425-1495.
Object title
Sermones quadragesimales de poenitentia.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?)], [not after 1473]
Description
[418] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1920.
Notes
Printed in type 1:120G ascribed to Georg Reyser by Ohly (Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1956), but tentatively to Heinrich Eggestein by Needham (Christie's, Doheny, I: 19).
A copy in Colmar BM carries the MS date 1473 (see Pellechet 3239).
Collation: [1-19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-42¹⁰]: 418 leaves, leaf [42]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.1-3 x 21 cm.
A copy in Colmar BM carries the MS date 1473 (see Pellechet 3239).
Collation: [1-19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21-42¹⁰]: 418 leaves, leaf [42]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.1-3 x 21 cm.
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (30.2 x 21 cm), bound in Ingolstadt by Jerg Wirffel, ca. 1467-89, EBDB workshop w000052 (in the Einbanddatenbank online, consulted on July 30, 2009); Kyriss 69. 2 clasps, square clasps and catch plates with incised foliate design and dotted background. Head- and footband stitching. Manuscript quire guards. Quires numbered in bottom margin of final verso, mainly trimmed.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Red and green foliate initial with marginal vine decoration (leaf [1]/1r); rubricated, red lombards, headlines, and capital strokes.
Contemporary marginal annotations in several hands, textual divisions, and manicules.
Contemporary marginal annotations in several hands, textual divisions, and manicules.
Provenance
Paul Schmidt (1834-1907), bookplate (front pastedown); Maggs Bros., catalogue description glued-in; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs Bros., 1920.
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