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In christi nomine incipit liber pastoralis domini Gregorii pape, ad sanctum Iohannem episcopum.

Accession number
PML 26869
Creator
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Object title

In christi nomine incipit liber pastoralis domini Gregorii pape, ad sanctum Iohannem episcopum.

Published

[Albi] : [Printer of Pius II, 'Epistola de remedio amoris' (H 183)], [about 1478]

Description

[72] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1929.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Pellechet assigned tentatively to Neumeister. PML Checklist and GW call this printer Printer of Aeneas Silvius.
GW dates as [about 1475-78].
Printed in Printer of Pius II, 'Epistola de remedio amoris' (H 183) type 1:115R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-5⁸ 6-8¹⁰]: 72 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 20.8 cm.
Binding
Modern stiff paper boards (29 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports, covered in 3 leaves of an unidentified 16th-century printed liturgical book (with contemporary marginal corrections and additions to text), with fore edge ("Yapp") extensions. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Pastorale, sive Regula pastoralis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks (on leaf [1]/1 only). Annotations: Contemporary French inscriptions: 2 quatrains: "Bien ala consciance dure / Et meth son [??] en grat ordure / Pour ce monde qui peu dure / Pert paradis qui tou swurs [i.e. jours?] dure / ...," 15th/16th century (front endleaf 2 verso) and illegible inscription: "do d[???] Go[??] my dm" (leaf [8]/10v).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Jacques Rosenthal, Oct. 1929.
Classification
Century
Department