Accession number
PML 22592
Creator
Innocent III, Pope, 1160 or 1161-1216.
Object title
Liber de miseria humane condic[i]onis.
Published
[Germany (Blaubeuren?)] : [Printer of Lotharius (H 10209) (Conrad Mancz?)], [probably before 1474]
Description
[36] leaves ; 28 x 20.5 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Liber de miseria humane condic[i]onis. Lotarii dyaconi sancto[rum] Sergi et Bachi cardinalis qui postea Innocentius terci[us] appelatus e[st]. Anno d[omi]ni Mccccxlviii.
Explicit (leaf [4]/6r): Explicit liber de miseria conditionis humane.
Printed in type 1:125/129G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁶]: 36 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Amelung (Frühdruck I, p.XVII) identifies the printer tentatively as Conrad Mancz. For discussion of the date, see BMC.
Bearer type on leaf [4]/6r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.4 cm.
Explicit (leaf [4]/6r): Explicit liber de miseria conditionis humane.
Printed in type 1:125/129G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4⁶]: 36 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Amelung (Frühdruck I, p.XVII) identifies the printer tentatively as Conrad Mancz. For discussion of the date, see BMC.
Bearer type on leaf [4]/6r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27 x 19.4 cm.
Binding
Contemporary German (Augsburg?) quarter blind-stamped pigskin over beech boards (28 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 3 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper fly leaves and manuscript waste reinforcements; plain endbands.
Variant title
De miseria humanae conditionis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, lombards on leaves [1]/1v-[1]/2r only. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Modern pencil foliation starting at 21, suggesting this was previously bound with another work, not lost.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription, illegible/bleached (leaf [1]/1r); Ernest Heinemann, Offenbach am Main, bookseller, Collection à vendre de monumens typographiques et autres ouvrages rares (1840), no. 111b, description pasted to rear board, including reference to Jacobus de Clusa, De animabus (s.l. & a.) bound before; unidentified English sale catalogue description pasted to rear board (Harper?); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathorp C. Harper, March 1925.
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