Collectio queda[m] pro declaratione cuiusda[m] dubitationis nup[er] mote circa id quod a doctoribus dicitur indulgencia[m] d[omi]ni paper a[n]i[m]ab[us] in purgatorio p[er]desse posse per modum suffragii.

Accession number:

PML 662

Uniform title:

Indulgentiae.

Published:

[Delft] : [Jacob Jacobszoon van der Meer], [between 14 February 1483 and 25 March 1486].

Description:

[18] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Irwin collection; 1900.

Notes:

Title from caption, leaf a2v: Collectio queda[m] pro declaratione cuiusda[m] dubitationis nup[er] mote circa id quod a doctoribus dicitur indulgencia[m] d[omi]ni pape a[n]i[m]ab[us] in purgatorio p[er]desse posse per modum suffragii feliciter incipit.
Imprint from ISTC, based upon types and watermarks. GW attributes to Christian Snellaert, ca. 1488/95.
Printed in Van der Meer's types 2C:104G and 3:145G (see Hellinga/Hellinga, Printing Types, II: 400).
Signatures: a⁸ b¹⁰: 18 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
About this anonymous text see N. Paulus, Geschichte des Ablasses (Paderborn 1923) Bd. 3, 387 and B. Kruitwagen, in Het Boek 11 (1922) p. 293. Incorrectly attributed to Johannes de Fabrica in Goff.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.8 x 13.5 cm.
Formerly ChL 1670, in section Netherlands, unassigned; reassigned 2002.

Binding:

Modern full yellow goatskin over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Francis Bedford for Irwin. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

Collectio quaedam de indulgentiis pro animabus in purgatorio, sive Super declaratione indulgentiarum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (tipped in before leaf a1r); his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 1480; John Allan (1777-1863); his sale, New York, 2 May 1864, lot 2419 for $2.00; Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), inscriptions and price codes (rear endleaf 9 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books