Accession number
PML 78463.1
Creator
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298.
Object title
Sermones dominicales.
Published
[Ulm] : [Conrad Dinckmut], 31 July 1484
Description
[8], i-clxxxi (with errors) 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Mr. Charles F. Morgan, Mr. Haliburton Fales, 2d, and Dr. Gordon N. Ray in memory of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Ordinis predicatoru[m] fratris Jacobi de voragine sermones dominicales per anni circulum predicabiles alphabetico ordie magistraliter registrati: sicut clare patet inspicienti feliciter incipiunt.
Colophon (leaf [24]/8r): Jacobi de voragine opusculu[m] in sermones d[omi]nicales co[m]positum finit feliciter. Anno d[omi]ni .1484. pridie kalendas Augusti die vero saturni.
Printed in Dinckmut's types 3:147G (headings, headlines) and 6:78/79G (text).
Assigned to Bologna by Voulliéme, and to Southern Germany by V. Scholderer (Gb Jb 1929, pp.127-33, reprinted in Fifty Essays (Amsterdam, 1966) pp.108-12; cf. BMC VI xxxvi, note). P. Amelung, Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, Dritte Folge 4 (1969) pp.145-51, assigns to Dinckmut (ISTC).
Collation: [1⁸; 2-24⁸]: 192 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Colophon (leaf [24]/8r): Jacobi de voragine opusculu[m] in sermones d[omi]nicales co[m]positum finit feliciter. Anno d[omi]ni .1484. pridie kalendas Augusti die vero saturni.
Printed in Dinckmut's types 3:147G (headings, headlines) and 6:78/79G (text).
Assigned to Bologna by Voulliéme, and to Southern Germany by V. Scholderer (Gb Jb 1929, pp.127-33, reprinted in Fifty Essays (Amsterdam, 1966) pp.108-12; cf. BMC VI xxxvi, note). P. Amelung, Beiträge zur Inkunabelkunde, Dritte Folge 4 (1969) pp.145-51, assigns to Dinckmut (ISTC).
Collation: [1⁸; 2-24⁸]: 192 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.5 x 18 cm.
Binding
17th-century Austrian blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (27 x 20 cm), sewn on 4 supports; panels depict Nativity ("Puer natus est...") and Baptism ("Hic est filius meus..."). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with manuscript waste as board reinforcement; plain endbands. 2 clasps with fore edge pins. Former bound in 2 volumes.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, underlining, and capital strokes (different style than in 78463.2). Annotations: Sporadic marginal notations in Latin and German, 16th century.
Provenance
Michael Alberus, inscription: Sum ex libris Michaÿlis Alberi (leaf [1]/1r); Maria Langegg (Lower Austria), Servites, inscription: Conventus D. Virg. Mariae in Monte Langegg Ord. Servorum...ex dono...Anthonii Kupferschlag parochi in Holnburg [Hollenburg], 1655 (leaf [1]/1r); unidentified shelf mark (Maria Langegg?): A. III. 42. r. (front pastedown); unidentified round blue ink stamp, possibly Austrian Bundesdenkmalamt stamp (rear board); Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl (d. ca. 1960); his sale, Bloomsbury, 31 Oct. 1985, lot 1A; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Bloomsbury via L.C. Harper, Nov. 1985.
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