Accession number
PML 21959.2
Creator
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Object title
Incipit tractatulus vene[r]abilis magistri Iohannis Gerson cancellarij Parisien[sis] de cognicione castitatis et pollucionibus diurnis.
Published
[Cologne] : [Printer of Dares (Johannes Solidi (Schilling))], [about 1472]
Description
[16] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Dares's type 1:100G.
Collation: [a-b⁸]: 16 leaves, leaf [2]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/8 (blank).
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Dares's type 1:100G.
Collation: [a-b⁸]: 16 leaves, leaf [2]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/8 (blank).
Binding
19th-century French dark green morocco over paper boards (21 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duru. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
De cognitione castitatis et de pollutionibus diurnis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Lower Rhine rubrication, primary initial in blue with remainder of initials in red, red paragraph marks and capital strokes (same hand in both parts of volume). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Abraded inscription, not legible under UV (De pollutione noctura, leaf [1]/2r); Ambroise Firmin-Didot (1790-1876), booklabel (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Paris, part 4, 12 June 1882, lot 155; unidentified sale catalogue description, no. 72 (rear endleaf 4 recto); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Michelmore, 1923.
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