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Hie hebt sich an die auszlegung Humberti desz hohen Lerers, der etwen ain gemainer Maister gewesen ist über den gantzen Prediger Orden über Sant Augustins Regel.

Accession number
PML 37879
Creator
Humbert, de Romans, 1194?-1277.
Object title

Hie hebt sich an die auszlegung Humberti desz hohen Lerers, der etwen ain gemainer Maister gewesen ist über den gantzen Prediger Orden über Sant Augustins Regel.

Published

[Ulm] : [Conrad Dinckmut], [approximately 1488]

Description

[4], ccii leaves ; 28 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1943.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a1r): Hie hebt sich an die auβlegung Humberti. deβ hohen lerers. der etwen ain gemainer maister gewesen ist über den gantzen prediger orden über sant Augustins regel...
Printed in Dinckmut's types 3:147G and 4:121G.
Collation: [1⁴]; a-z⁸ /⁸ [dot]¹⁰: 206 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
For uncorrected proof leaves used as waste in bindings, see Amelung, Frühdruck I 102 & Abb. 147, 149.
Current research suggests the Dominican Georg Falder-Pistoris (d. 29 Dec. 1452) or Johannes Meyer (d. 20 July 1485) as possible translators (ISTC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.3 cm.
Binding
Early 20th-century laced parchment over stiff boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by K. Ebert, Munich. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations.
Provenance
Buxheim (Bavaria), Carthusians, inscription: "Cartusia Buxiae" (leaf [1]/1r) and stamp (leaf a1r); [Buxheim sale, Carl Förster'sche Kunstauktion (Munich), Auk. XXX (Abt. ii), 20 Sept. 1883?]; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Davis & Orioli, Dec. 1943.
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