Accession number
PML 26.2
Creator
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Object title
Dialogorum libri quattuor.
Published
[Cologne : Ulrich Zell, about 1473]
Description
[82] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
Printed in Zell's type 2:115G.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8¹²]: 82 leaves, leaf [8]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy with upper outside corner of leaf [8]/8 repaired, some text affected.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8¹²]: 82 leaves, leaf [8]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy with upper outside corner of leaf [8]/8 repaired, some text affected.
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 (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
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