Accession number
PML 24855
Creator
Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.
Object title
Soliloquia.
Published
[Nuremberg] : [Johann Sensenschmidt], [about 1470, before 15 May 1471]
Description
[18] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1927.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit prologus Isidori episcopi in soliloquia eiusdem.
Explicit (leaf [2]/7v): Sancti isidori Ispalensis archiep[iscop]i sinonima exliciu[n]t.
Printed in Sensenschmidt's type 1:114G.
A Bamberg copy has the date 1471 Sophie [15 May] (BMC reprint). GW dates as about 1470/72.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸]: 18 leaves, leaf [2]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 21.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/8 (blank).
Explicit (leaf [2]/7v): Sancti isidori Ispalensis archiep[iscop]i sinonima exliciu[n]t.
Printed in Sensenschmidt's type 1:114G.
A Bamberg copy has the date 1471 Sophie [15 May] (BMC reprint). GW dates as about 1470/72.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸]: 18 leaves, leaf [2]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 21.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/8 (blank).
Binding
Modern laced parchment over paper boards (29 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Modern reuse of incunable leaves (Duns Scotus, Quaestiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, [14]81), ISTC id00380000) for pastedowns and fly leaves. Two ties, wanting.
Inscriptions/Markings
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Aug. 1927.
Provenance
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks, and red capital strokes. Annotations: No notations in text.
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