[Postilla super epistolas et evangelia].

Accession number

PML 78462

Creator

Guillermus, Parisiensis.

Object title

[Postilla super epistolas et evangelia].

Published

[Germany (Blaubeuren?)] : [Printer of Lotharius (H 10209) (Conrad Mancz?)], [1474]

Description

[263] leaves ; 31 x 22 cm. (fol.)

Credit line

Purchased by Mr. Howard Phipps, Jr., and Mr. Henry G. Walter, Jr., in honor of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Notes

Title from ISTC.
Incipit (leaf [1]/2r): [V]Itam bonam et exitum beatum Ego frater Guillermus sacre theologie p[ro]fessor minimus p[ar]isius educatus sacroru[m] evangeliorum ac apistola[rum] de tempore dieb[us] dominicis et sanctis...
Printed in type 1:125/129G.
Collation: [1-3⁸ 4⁸(4+1: pn̄tis epl'e) 5-10⁸ 11⁶ 12⁸ 13⁶ 14-32⁸ 33¹⁰]: 263 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Amelung (Frühdruck I, p.XVII) identifies the printer tentatively as Conrad Mancz.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 21 cm.

Binding

Contemporary German blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (31 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports; rebacked. Modern paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with original manuscript waste as reinforcements (front manuscript leaf includes fragmentary drawing of gothic architecture and knight); plain endbands. 2 clasps (modern) to original catch plates.

Inscriptions/Markings

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards (with a few blue), capital strokes, and L-brackets; headlines to leaf [2]/6r only. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript numeric-alphabetic quire signatures

Provenance

Burghausen (Bavaria), Jesuits, inscription: Collegii Societatis Jesu Burghusii, 18th century (leaf [1]/2r); Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl (d. ca. 1960?), of Achstetten; his sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 1; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Bloomsbury via Lathrop C. Harper, Nov. 1985.

Classification

Incunable Collection

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Century

15th century

Department

Printed Books

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