Accession number
PML 44866.2
Creator
Gui, Petrus de.
Object title
Methaphisica magistri Petri Dagui.
Published
Impressum Hispali [i.e. Seville] : opera & diligentia Stanislai Poloni, impensis vero domini Joannis Montis Serrati, die vigesimo secundo mensis ionii. anno domini millesimo quingentesimo [22 June 1500].
Description
[214] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1953.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf bb10r: Absolutum opus de formalitatibus cu[m] quibusda[m] preambulis introductivis ipsaru[m] vulgo nominatum methaphisica. impressum hispali opera & diligentia Stanislai poloni. impensis vero domini Ioannis montis serrati in artib[us] magistri & in medicina bacalarii. die vigesimo secundo mensis ionii. anno domini millesimo quingentesimo. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Polonus's types 4:150G and 7:112R.
Signatures: A⁴; a-z⁸ &⁸ aa⁸ bb¹⁰: 214 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Blind, bearer type visible, leaf A1r, A3r and bb10v.
Often found with Goff G-542 (PML 44866.4), with which it was probably issued.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 14.8 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf bb10r: Absolutum opus de formalitatibus cu[m] quibusda[m] preambulis introductivis ipsaru[m] vulgo nominatum methaphisica. impressum hispali opera & diligentia Stanislai poloni. impensis vero domini Ioannis montis serrati in artib[us] magistri & in medicina bacalarii. die vigesimo secundo mensis ionii. anno domini millesimo quingentesimo. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Polonus's types 4:150G and 7:112R.
Signatures: A⁴; a-z⁸ &⁸ aa⁸ bb¹⁰: 214 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Blind, bearer type visible, leaf A1r, A3r and bb10v.
Often found with Goff G-542 (PML 44866.4), with which it was probably issued.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 14.8 cm.
Binding
16th-century (early 1500s) German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (22 x 16 cm), sewn on 2 bands. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges. 2 clasps, missing.
Variant title
Metaphysica, sive opus divinum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: German rubrication (same throughout volume), alternating red and blue initials, red capital strokes and underlining, dated 1500 (leaf b9v of Janua artis). Printer's mark highlighted in red. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations by Pol moderately throughout and interlinear corrections (same hand throughout volume). Contempoary foliation, by Pol(?) (with more modern version of 4, 5, and 7 than typically seen in 15th century).
Provenance
Nicolaus Pol (about 1470-1532), annotations throughout first, second, and fourth works in volume and contents list (front pastedown); unidentified shelfmark: S (fore edge); Lathrop C. Harper, cat. 156 (Oct. 1928), no. 485; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, June 1953.
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