Accession number
PML 26.3
Creator
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Object title
Commentum super Cantica canticorum.
Published
[Cologne : Ulrich Zell, not after 1473]
Description
[40] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Printed in Zell's type 2:115G.
Uppsala copy with rubricator's date of 1473 (Collijn, Katalog der Inkunabeln zu Uppsala, 629).
Collation: [1-4¹⁰]: 40 leaves, leaf [4]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Authorship is attributed to Robertus de Tumbalena in Bod-inc G-206.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [4]/10 (blank).
Uppsala copy with rubricator's date of 1473 (Collijn, Katalog der Inkunabeln zu Uppsala, 629).
Collation: [1-4¹⁰]: 40 leaves, leaf [4]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Authorship is attributed to Robertus de Tumbalena in Bod-inc G-206.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [4]/10 (blank).
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, underlining, and capital strokes. Torquemada and two Gregory texts rubricated in the same hand.
Provenance
Parish church in Merry-la-Vallée (Burgundy), France(?), fifteenth/sixteenth-century inscription, partially trimmed: "[?] Regis Curatus in Meera (Merriacum?) emit hunc librum" (leaf [1]/1r); Jacob Scheffer (d. 1796), of s'Hertogenbosch (i.e. Bois le Duc), sold in 1780 (note on verso of 3rd fly leaf); Theodore Irwin (1827-1902); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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