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Vita et transitus

Accession number
PML 84
Creator
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420.
Object title

Vita et transitus

Published

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1470]

Description

[47 and 64] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
GW identifies authors as Pseudo-Eusebius, Pseudo-Augustinus, Pseudo-Cyrillus, and Pseudo-Jerome.
Printed in Zel's types 1b:106/111G and 2:115G.
Library's copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
This edition was apparently also issued in two parts, comprising I) Eusebius Cremonensis, and II) Augustinus and the remaining tracts. Sometimes entered under the first work.
Collation, part I: [1-5⁸ 6⁶ (6+1: "Iam denarium"]: 47 leaves; part II: [1-8⁸]: 64 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy is part II only.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 14.5 cm.
Binding
20th-century (after Morgan acquisition) half brown goatskin, with cloth sides, over paper boards (22.5 x 15 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands.
Variant title
Vita et transitus (i.e., Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De miraculis Hieronymi). Add: Hieronymus: Epistola ad Susannam lapsam et ad Heliodorum.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initial and capital strokes (leaf [1]/1r only). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified duplicate, "Dupl" inscription (leaf [1]/1r); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department