Accession number
PML 34638
Creator
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Object title
Cy commence le mirouer delame.
Published
[Vienne] : [Eberhard Frommolt], [approximately 1480]
Description
[50] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1938.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from ISTC. Date from PML Checklist; ISTC dates as about 1479, GW as about 1481.
Printed in Frommolt's type 1:98/99G.
Collation: [1-3⁶ 4-7⁸]: 50 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Sometimes found with Dispute du corps et de l'âme (Dal-Droz 26; cf. GW).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14.5 cm.
PML copy is Miroir de l'âme only (quires [1-3]).
Imprint from ISTC. Date from PML Checklist; ISTC dates as about 1479, GW as about 1481.
Printed in Frommolt's type 1:98/99G.
Collation: [1-3⁶ 4-7⁸]: 50 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Sometimes found with Dispute du corps et de l'âme (Dal-Droz 26; cf. GW).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14.5 cm.
PML copy is Miroir de l'âme only (quires [1-3]).
Binding
19th-century English full red morocco over paper boards (20.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Opus tripartitum de praeceptis Decalogi, de confessione, et de arte moriendi [French]
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Contemporary French inscription, abraded/illegible under UV (leaves [2]/6v-[3]/1r); Maggs Bros., unidentified catalogue, no. 62; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Maggs, Feb. 1938.
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