Gesta Cristi.

Accession number: 
PML 185
Author: 
Hus, Jan, pseudo-.
Published: 
[Speyer] : [Printer of the 'Gesta Christi'], [about 1472]
Description: 
[12] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Incipiunt gesta Cristi.
Explicit (leaf b6v): Expliciu[n]t Gesta Cristi.
Printed in the Printer of the Gesta Christi's type 1:120G.
Collation: a-b⁶: 12 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.8 x 19.3 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: a1 (blank).

Binding: 
18th/19th-century ochre paper over paper boards (27.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant Title: 

Gesta Christi

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, lombards with red capital strokes and underlining; green dragon initial with pink and blue foliate tail (leaf a2r); ink marginal ruling added. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance: 
[?Richard Heber, later note suggesting his ownership on front fly leaf but doesn't appear to be in Heber sale]; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes and price code o/-/- (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), booklabel (front pastedown), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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