Accession number
PML 20709
Object title
Flores poetarum de virtutibus et vitiis, sive Sententiae.
Published
[Cologne] : [Bartholomaeus de Unkel], [about 1480]
Description
[112] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Unkel's type 1:103G.
CIBN F-123 dates as not before 1481.
Signatures: [1¹⁰]; a-m⁸ n⁶: 112 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and n6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and n6 (blanks).
Printed in Unkel's type 1:103G.
CIBN F-123 dates as not before 1481.
Signatures: [1¹⁰]; a-m⁸ n⁶: 112 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and n6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and n6 (blanks).
Binding
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with decorative paper sides, over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Variant title
Sententiae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, and red capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary marginal and interlinear notations sporadically throughout text.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/2r); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), purchased May 1903, his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3146 (described as bound in "old calf"); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Ellis, Sept. 1919.
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