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Isidorus de summo bono.

Accession number
PML 79752.2
Creator
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Object title

Isidorus de summo bono.

Published

Impressum Parisii : per magistrum Petrum Le Dru pro Johanne Petit, Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimonono die vero xii mensis Marcii [12 March 1499/1500]

Description

[1], ii-xciii, [3] leaves ; 14.5 cm (8vo)

Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1988.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r, with Petit's device.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m8v: Isydori hyspalensis episcopi tractatus de summo bono finit feliciter. Impressum parisii in vico sancti marturini per Magistrum Petrum le dru/ pro Joha[n]ne petit co[m]morante in vico sancti iacobi. ad intersignium leonis argentei. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimonono die vero xii mensis Marcii.
Printed in Le Dru's types 1:ca.120G and 2:65G.
A variant is known with Denis Roce's device.
PML Checklist dates as 12 March 1499/1500.
Signatures: a-m⁸: 96 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.8 x 9 cm.
Binding
16th-century French quarter paper over pasteboard (14.5 x 10 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Contemporary NB marks, underlining, and brackets sporadically throughout text.
Provenance
Champlitte (Haute-Saône), Capuchins, inscription: "Ad usum Cap. Conventus Champlet" (leaf a1r of Diaeta salutis); C[laude?]. Signerre, signatures, late-16th century (leaves a1r and t8v of Diaeta saluts, leaf a1r of De summo bono, and leaf a1r of De venerabili sacramento), who gave the volume to: Blasius Alteriet of Percey-le-Grand (Haute-Saône), inscriptions (leaf t8v of Diaeta salutis and leaf m8v of De summo bono); Antoine Alteriet, inscription: "Anthoine Alt[eriet]," abraded (leaf a1r of Diaeta salutis) and possibly monogram: AA (leaf i4v of Auctoritates Aristotelis); unidentified inscription (shelf mark?): 155a (leaf a1r of Diaeta salutis); unidentified book label, removed (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper Inc. on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, July 1988.
Classification
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Department