Accession number
PML 524.1
Creator
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Object title
Dialogus Magistri Johannis Gerson De perfectione cordis.
Published
[Paris] : Felix [Baligault], [1495-1496]
Description
[20] leaves ; 14 cm (8vo)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Baligault's device "Felix", leaf a1r. City and date from ISTC.
Printed in Baligault's types 4:75G, 5:190G, and 6:99G.
Signatures: a-b⁸c⁴: 20 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.3 x 9 cm.
Baligault's device "Felix", leaf a1r. City and date from ISTC.
Printed in Baligault's types 4:75G, 5:190G, and 6:99G.
Signatures: a-b⁸c⁴: 20 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.3 x 9 cm.
Binding
18th-century French gilt-tooled calf over paper boards (13.5 x 9.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Decorative printed paper pastedowsn and endleaves; red edges.
Variant title
De perfectione cordis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, red initial (leaf a2r) and capital strokes (same throughout PML 524). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Biographical notes on Gerson in French, 18th century (front endleaf 1 verso).
Provenance
Albert Philippe Charles Vaernewyck, vicomte de Vaernewyck (1762-1841), manuscript name label (front pastedown); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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