Accession number
PML 77097.1
Creator
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Object title
Libri dialogorum sancti Gregorii pape.
Published
Impressi ac diligentissime correcti Basilee : per Michaele[m] Furter, sub anno domini Milesimoquadringentesimononogesimosexto [1496].
Description
[58] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Mr. Edwin H. Herzog, 1981.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf i6r: Libri dyalogoru[m] beati Gregorii pape: una cu[m] annotationibus capituloru[m] feliciter expliciunt. Impressi ac diligentissime correcti Basilee per Michaele[m] Furter: sub anno domini Milesimoquadringentesimononogesimosexto.
Printed in Furter's types 1:83G, 3:180G, 4:64G, and 5:93G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-g⁸/⁴ h⁸ i⁶: 58 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.4 x 13.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf i6r: Libri dyalogoru[m] beati Gregorii pape: una cu[m] annotationibus capituloru[m] feliciter expliciunt. Impressi ac diligentissime correcti Basilee per Michaele[m] Furter: sub anno domini Milesimoquadringentesimononogesimosexto.
Printed in Furter's types 1:83G, 3:180G, 4:64G, and 5:93G.
Signatures: a⁸ b-g⁸/⁴ h⁸ i⁶: 58 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.4 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
Modern stiff vellum over paper boards (20 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. The three works were likely not bound together until at least the 17th or 18th century as staining and wormholes are not continuous through the works. The inscription that was on the title page of the Lapide was inked out and bled through to the second leaf, but also offset to the final leaf of the Gregory, which clearly happened after the works were bound together.
Variant title
Dialogorum libri quattuor
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Gutter and fore edge staining throughout all three works in volume; marginal staining and loss at fore edge in quire a of Gregory.
Provenance
Dumas Chanonir(?), inscription, 15th/16th century (leaf a1r of Gregory); Limoges, unidientified church, inscription: "Hic liber pertinet ad dominu[m] co[?]ll[?] insignis ecclesiae Lemovicensis canoni[???]," 16th/17th century (leaf a1r of Gregory); Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), booklabels (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 134; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Mr. Edwin H. Herzog, April 1981.
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