Accession number
PML 21959.1
Creator
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Object title
De pollutione nocturna.
Published
[Cologne] : [Printer of Dares (Johannes Solidi (Schilling))], [not after 1472]
Description
[16] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/2r.
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: [1]/1 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: [1]/1 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
Checklist title: De pollutionibus nocturnis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Lower Rhine rubrication, primary initial in gold with blue penwork, 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 (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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