Dialogi decem variorum auctorum.

Accession number:

PML 75866

Published:

[Cologne] : [Printer of 'Flores Sancti Augustini' (Johann Schilling)], [1473]

Description:

[120] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the L.C. Harper C-1 Fund, the Fellows Fund, and as the gift of Governor Elmer L. Andersen, Mr. and Mrs. James R. Houghton, Mr. Frederick Koch, Mr. Axel G. Rosin, and Mr. John Train, 1979.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Printed in type 100G (leaded to 109) attributed to Johann Schilling.
The printer is tentatively identified as Johann Veldener by S. Corsten, in Journal of the Printing Historical Society 11 (1976/77), pp. 1-18, but as Johann Schilling by P. Needham, "William Caxton and His Cologne Partners," in Ars impressoria, pp. 121-22.
Dated 1473 at end of prologue: Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxiii. (leaf [1]/1v).
Collation: [1-12]¹⁰: 120 leaves, leaf [12]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.6 x 20.3 cm.

Binding:

18th-century half calf with gilt-tooled spine over paper boards with sides covered in sprinkled paper (28.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; edges dyed red.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks (C- and double-slash-types), capital strokes, underlining, and foliation (possibly by Pierre Villa). Annotations: No notations in text. Modern (late 18th/early 19th-century?) French bibliographic description referring to a copy sold at the duc de la Valliere sale (third fly leaf verso).

Provenance:

Pietro (Pierre) Villa (d. 1480), resident of Ghent, coat-of-arms and name: signed Priere Vaille (leaf [1]/1r, and first leaf of each quire); Gaspar-Joseph de Servais (1735-1807), inscription (rear pastedown); his sale, Malines, 3 Oct. 1808, lot 1445; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, July 1979.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Calf bindings (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Sprinkled papers (Binding)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books