In hoc corpore continentur tripertite historie ex Socrate Sozomeno et Theodorico in unu[m] collecte et nuper de greco in latinu[m] translate libri numero duodecim.

Accession number: 
PML 124
Author: 
Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : Johann Schüssler, approximately 5 February 1472.
Description: 
[195] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): In hoc corpore continentur tripertite historie ex Socrate Sozomeno et Theodorico in unu[m] collecte et nuper de greco in latinu[m] translate libri numero duodecim.
Colophon (leaf [20]/4r): Historie tripertite libri numero duodecim. iam domino prestante finiunt feliciter. Non quidem cirographati; Sed ipsa. que a su[m]mo demissa est. arte; Per Iohanne[m] Schüβler regio urbis Augustensis civem q[uide]m dilige[n]ter impressi. Anno salutifere incarnationis Christi Hiesu. Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimoseptuagesimosecundo; Circiter nonas februarias, Laus almipotenti, Amen.
Printed in Schüssler's type 1:117G.
Collation: [1¹² 2-9¹⁰ 10⁶ 11¹⁰(10+1 autem qui dicunt) 12-19¹⁰ 20⁶]: 195 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [20]/5-6 blank.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.9 x 21.9 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [20]/5 (blank), perhaps uses as rear pastedown.

Binding: 
Contemporary red-stained blind-stamped leather (sheepskin?) over wooden boards (33 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Johann Schüssler in Augsburg (EBDB w001512/Kyriss 90, a.k.a. Wundervogel or Fuchsvogel-Meister I). Contemporary plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. 1 clasp, wanting. Ink title inscription on top board, faded.
Variant Title: 

Historia ecclesiastica tripartita.

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards (possibly modern, by Morris?) and underlining; primary lombards in red/green with filigree penwork decoration. Annotations: Minimal marginal notations. Contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures at bottom gutter edge of rectos (from Schüssler's shop?). 16th-century ink foliation, with mistakes, starting at leaf [1]/3r and list of folio incipits for books (rear pastedown). Title inscription, crossed out, 16th/17th century (leaf [1]/2r).

Provenance: 
Munich, Franciscans, inscription: Monachii ad PP. Franciscanos Bibl., 17th/18th century (leaf [1]/2r); unidentified shelf mark (Munich Francsicans?): D.2., 17th/18th century(?) (front pastedown); Munich, Royal Library, duplicate inscription and shelf mark: Inc. Typ. No. 1246 (front fly leaf recto); unidentified English sale catalogue description, lot 62 (laid in, front pastedown); James Elwin Millard (1823-1894), bookplate (front pastedown) and inscription (leaf [20]/4v); his sale, Sotheby's, 29 Nov. 1890, lot 66 (lot description pasted to front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel and inscription, 1890 (front pastedown) with bibliographic notes on paper and type, Jan. 1891 (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and price code l/-/- +__ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
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Rubrics
Sheepskin bindings (Binding)
Blind tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
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