Hubertini Clerici crescentinatis in epistolas Ciceronis co[m]mentu[m].

Accession number: 
PML 15421
Author: 
Hubertinus, Clericus Crescentinas, approximately 1405-1500.
Published: 
[Milan] : [Bonus Accursius], [approximately 1480]
Description: 
[358] leaves ; 33 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1908.
Notes: 

Title from caption at incipit on leaf a3 recto.
Imprint from ISTC.
On the date, see BM 15th cent., VI, 755.
Dedicatory letter to Johannes Franciscus Turrianus dated "Mediolani .iiii. idus augustas [12 August] (leaf a2v).
Printed in Accursius's types 1:119R and 2:119Gk.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ & ⁸ [con]⁸ [Rum]⁸ aa-rr⁸ ss-tt⁶: 358 leaves, leaves a1 and tt6 blank. Leaves a2-a3 unsigned, leaves a4-a5 signed "a iii" and "a iiii."
Paper format: Median folio
The author is catalogued under Hubertinus by GW and BN cat. des incun.; however, Clericus is the author's family name; he was not a cleric: cf. DBI XXVI 404-6.
GW records printing variants as two separate issues: 13559 and 13560.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.8 x 22.6 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: tt6 (blank).

Binding: 
Modern half brown goatskin with cloth sides over paper boards (33 x 24 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with original front fly leaf; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Ruburication unrealized. Annotations: A few marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Bergamo (Lombardy), Dominicans, St. Dominic, inscription: "Hic liber est [con]vent[us] s. d[omi]nici In bergomo. or[dinis] p[re]dicato[rum]," 16th century (leaf a[4]r); unidentified sale catalogue description (front fly leaf recto); unidentified purchase inscription: Feb. 1873 (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased by 1908.
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