Sermones discipuli de tempore et de sanctis cum promptuario exemplorum.

Accession number: 
PML 77282
Author: 
Herolt, Johann.
Published: 
Impressum Basilee ... : Nicolas Kesler ... ; Sub anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimooctuagesimosexto. S[e]c[un]da die mensis Marcij ... [2 March 1486]
Description: 
[382] leaves ; 36 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Gift of Peter M. Mortimer, 1981.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf v6v: Finit opus p[er]utile simplicibus curam animaru[m] gerentibus. p[er] venerabilem & deuotu[m] Iohanne[m] Herolt sancti dominici sectatore[m] p[ro]fessum. de temp[or]e & de sanctis cu[m] p[ro]mptuario exemploru[m] atq[ue] tabulis suis collectu[m]. Discipulus nuncupatu[m] Impressum Basilee Sub anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimooctuagesimosexto. S[e]c[un]da die mensis Marcij Cu[n]ctipotenti aspira[n]te deo Nicola[us] Kesler feliciter consummauit.
Printed in Kessler's types 1:180G and 2:82G.
Signatures: A⁸ B-C⁶ D-R⁸·⁶ S-T⁸ V-Z⁶·⁸ Aa-Hh⁶·⁸6 Ii-Ll⁶; a-f⁸·⁶ g-i⁸ k-r⁶·⁸ s-v⁸: 382 leaves, leaves Ll6 and v8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
With woodcut printer's device on v6v below colophon.
In four parts: A) Sermones de tempore; B) Sermones de sanctis; C) Promptuarium exemplorum; D) Promptuarium de miraculis Beatae Virginis Mariae.
With table of contents: A2r-C6r.
2 columns, 58-59 lines. Initial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33 x 22 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: Ll6 and v8 (blanks).

Binding: 
18th-century half calf, with sprinkled paper sides, over paper boards (34 x 23 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; sprinkled edges.
Variant Title: 

Title as cited by ISTC : Sermones Discipuli de tempore et de sanctis cum promptuario exemplorum et miraculis Beatae Mariae Virginis

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: A few marginal notations and nota marks sporadically throughout.

Provenance: 
Ernst Friderich Wernsdorf (1718-1782), inscription (leaf A1r); unidentified monogram: D.Kl., 19th century (leaf A1r); J. Eliot Hodgkin (1829-1912), bookplate (front pastedown) and monogram (rear pastedown); his sale, Sotheby's 12 May 1914; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Peter M. Mortimer, 1981.
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