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De divinia predestinatione.

Accession number
PML 20995
Creator
Felicianus.
Object title

De divinia predestinatione.

Published

[Augsburg] : [Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra (with Anton Sorg's type)], [1473-1474]

Description

[12] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title from incipit ([1]/1r): Incipit tractat[us] fratris Feliciani ordinis Predicatoru[m] doctoris eximii de divinia predestinatione intitulatus.
Explicit (leaf [1]/11v): Explicit tractatulus fratris Feliciani ordinis predicatorum de divina p[re]destinatione intitulat[us] felicit[er].
Location of printing based on manuscript note in Cambridge UL copy: Inc. 2.A. 2.5. (Oates 915), see Robert Proctor, "Ulrich von Ellenbog and the press of S. Ulrich at Augsburg," in Bibliographical Essays, London 1905, pp. 73-88.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G (type 2:103G of SS. Ulrich and Afra).
Dated in GW 1473-74, in BSB-Ink not after 1474, in BMC not after 1476.
Collation: [1¹²]: 12 leaves, leaf [1]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.8 x 21.4 cm, untrimmed leaves, deckle edges.
Binding
19th-century hard-grained brown morocco over paper boards (32 x 22 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Bickers & Son, London. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands. Bookplates removed from previous binding and preserved on a fly leaf of current binding.
Variant title
De divina praedestinatione
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front fly leaf recto) and bibliographic notes (front fly leaf verso); Kloss sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 1762; Russell Kendall, armorial booklabel (front fly leaf recto); Thomas Henry Passmore (1865-1941), booklabel (front fly leaf recto); two unidentified sale catalogue descriptions, lot 247 (front fly leaf recto) and lot 97 (rear fly leaf recto); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1920.
Classification
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Department