Liber soliloquioru[m].

Accession number:

PML 77103.1

Author:

Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.

Published:

[Albi] : [Printer of Pius II, 'Epistola de remedio amoris' (H 183)], [between 1475 and 1480]

Description:

[26] leaves ; 27.5 x 20 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Fellows Fund and Fellows Capital Fund, 1981.

Notes:

Title from colophon.
Incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Incipit prologus i libro soliloquioru[m] ysidori episcopi palatinensis urbis.
Colophon (leaf [3]/6r): Explicit liber soliloquioru[m] beati ysidori e[pisco]pi. Deo gratias Amen.
Dated between 1475 and 1480 in CIBN, about 1480 by Goff and GW.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3⁶]: 26 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Printing assigned to Neumeister by Maignien, Catalogue des incunables de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Grenoble, 333.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.4 x 18.8 cm
PML copy shelved according to ChL 1597X.
PML copy with leaf [1]/2 bound between leaves [1]/8-9.

Binding:

18th-century French gilt-tooled green morocco over paper boards (27 x 19.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; all edges gilt.

Variant Title:

Soliloquia

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated foliate border, Flemish style (leaf [1]/1r); rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards with blue/red penwork decoration and paragraph marks, yellow capital strokes (same in ChL 1597X). Annotations: Nota bene marks. Faded inscription: "Quis quis est hic et laudabimus" (Eccl. 31:9) and doodle of a cross (leaf [1]/1r). Inscriptions: "Non cité B.J.D.B." (same citation in Bod-inc P-044(1)) and "9306.7" (first fly leaf verso), "Museé" (second fly leaf recto), and "PG" (rear fly leaf recto).

Provenance:

Louis César, duc de La Vallière (1708-1780), inscription: "La Valliere No. 787, vendu £38, Lasirna non fait par mention" (fly leaf verso); his sale, Paris, 1783; Charles Pierre Josèphe Le Candèle de Ghyseghem (1761-1830), armorial booklabel; his sale, Catalogue de Livres...La Bibliotheque de Monsieur Le Baron Le Candele de Ghyseghem, Brussels, 15 March 1838; Engelbert-Auguste, duc d'Arenberg (1824-1875), no. 303bis (blue spine label) and inventory codes A,5 and XXII,10/XXIV,36 (first fly leaf verso); H.P. Kraus, cat. 86 (1958), no. 203b; Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 91, 92, booklabels (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 1; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased 8 April 1981.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Illuminations

Rubrics

Morocco binding (Bindings)

Inscriptions (Provenance)

Department:

Printed Books