Accession number
PML 19579
Creator
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Object title
De summo bono.
Published
Nuremberg : [Johann Sensenschmidt], [not after April 1470]
Description
[70] leaves ; 31 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): In christi nomine incipit liber p[ri]mus sa[n]cti ysidori hispale[n]sis episcopi de summo bono.
Colophon (leaf [7]/4r): De summo bono Isidori hispalensis episcopi Liber finit feliciter Nuremberge [etc.].
A Bamberg copy has the date Circa festum Pasce [Easter falling on 22 April] (BMC reprint).
Printed in Sensenschmidt's type 1:114G.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰]: 70 leaves, leaves [7]/6-10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 20.8 cm.
PML copy missing 5 leaves: [7]/6-10 (blanks).
Colophon (leaf [7]/4r): De summo bono Isidori hispalensis episcopi Liber finit feliciter Nuremberge [etc.].
A Bamberg copy has the date Circa festum Pasce [Easter falling on 22 April] (BMC reprint).
Printed in Sensenschmidt's type 1:114G.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰]: 70 leaves, leaves [7]/6-10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 20.8 cm.
PML copy missing 5 leaves: [7]/6-10 (blanks).
Binding
19th-century blind-stamped Russia calf over paper boards (30 x 21 cm.), sewn on by Mackinlay(?). Colored paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; all edges gilt.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, running headlines, paragraph marks (g- and p-types), and capital strokes. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), purchase inscription: £2.-.-, 25 Dec. 1811, and "Mackinlay" (front fly leaf recto) and 1 Feb. 1812 (rear fly leaf recto), Wodhull left his collection to his sister-in-law Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne, passing to John Edmund Severne (1826-1899); Wodhull/Severne sale, Sotheby's, 11 Jan. 1886, lot 2799 for £2.14; unidentified (Martini?) American sale description, lot 81 for $100 (rear fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1912.
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