Defensorium fidei dialogos septem contra Judaeos, haereticos et Sarracenos continens.

Accession number: 
PML 22222.1
Published: 
[Utrecht : Nicolaus Ketelaer and Gerardus de Leempt, 1474]
Description: 
[80] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923/24.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): "Defensorium fidei contra iudeos heretieos et sarracenos libros seu dyalogos septe[m] continens. Incipit feliciter."
Printed in Ketelaer and Leempt's type 122G (BMC).
Dated by CIBN. Dated about 1473 in Goff.
Collation: [1-10⁸]: 80 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Includes: Johannes de Turrecremata, De Salute animae (leaves [10]/1v-6r); Cassiodorus, Historia ecclesiastica tripartita, Lib. V, cap. 17-18: Constantii imperatoris et Liberii pape pro defensione Athanasii dialogus (leaves [10]/6v-8v).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 19.8 cm.
PML volume includes two printed and four manuscript texts.

Binding: 
Contemporary blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (28.8 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 bands, bound in Cologne by the Löwe Vierpass I workshop (EBDB w002532); rebacked. Primary wound endbands. Plain paper pastedowns. 2 clasps, wanting. Repaired by Duprez Lahey.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks (C-type), and capital strokes (same as in PML 22222.2 and 22222.5). Large lombards with negative space decoration. Contemporary manuscript title, binding notes(? partially trimmed), and inscription ".2. mr̄. 3. al̄b̄." (leaf [1]/1r). Annotations: Contemporary manuscript signatures, starting with "m1," crossed out and replaced by "d1." Modern bibliographic annotations on leaf [1]/1 of Defensorium fidei. Red leather tabs for each text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified early inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r of Defensorium fidei); J.P. Morgan, Jr., purchased from Wilfred Voynich, Dec. 1923/Jan. 1924.
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