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Fratris Jacobi philippi Bergomensis ordinis fratrum Eremitarum divi Augu. in omnimoda historia novissime congesta Supplementu[m] Chronicaru[m] [a]ppellata.

Accession number
PML 22720
Creator
Jacobus Philippus, Bergomensis, 1434-1520.
Object title

Fratris Jacobi philippi Bergomensis ordinis fratrum Eremitarum divi Augu. in omnimoda historia novissime congesta Supplementu[m] Chronicaru[m] [a]ppellata.

Published

Venetiarum [Venice] : Per Bernardinus de Benalijs bergome[n]sem, eode[m] anno die 23° Augusti [23 August 1483]

Description

[10], [1] 2-116, 1-180 leaves ; 32 x 21 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a3r): Fratris Jacobi philippi Bergomensis ordinis fratrum Eremitarum divi Augu. in omnimoda historia novissime congesta Supplementu[m] Chronicaru[m] [a]ppellata. Liber primus feliciter incipit.
Colophon (leaf DD6r): Hic igit[ur] terminu[m] pona[m] Suppleme[n]ti historia[rum]: qua[m] me p[ro]misi cu[m] o[mn]i veritate traditu[rum]. Nisus a[ute]m sum sine errore successio[n]es regu[m] [et] p[ri]ncipu[m]: [et] act[us] eo[rum]: ac viro[rum] i[n] disciplinis excelle[n]tium. [et] origines religionum: sicut ex libris hystorico[rum] descriptio [con]tinet[ur]. hoc e[n]i[m] i[n] exordio huius operis me facere compromisi. Perfectu[m] a[u]t p[er] me opus fuit a[n]no salutis n[ost]re .1483. 3°. k[a]l[end]as Julii i[n] civitate Bergomi: mihi v[er]o a nativitate quadragesimo nono. Impressum autem hoc opus i[n] inclita Venetia[rum] civitate: per Bernardinu[m] de Benaliis bergome[n]sem eode[m] anno .die. 23°. Augusti.
Printed in Benalius's types 1:80G and 15:107G.
Collation: A¹⁰; a¹² b-i⁸ k-l⁶ m-n⁸ o-p⁶; A-F⁸ G-H⁶ I⁸ K-M⁶ N⁸ O⁶ P⁸ Q-Z AA-DD⁶: 306 leaves.
Paper format: Super chancery folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.1 x 20 cm., trimmed.
Binding
Modern (Italian?) blind-tooled half goatskin over (original?) wooden boards (32 x 21 cm.), sewn on 3 supports. Modern plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands. 2 clasps, missing, catch plates embossed with "yhs" monogram in a sun.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Illuminated initial I with author portrait and armorial in bottom margin (leaf a3r); rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified Italian armorial: silver and black with red bend, with monogram: B.B., 15th century; unidentified printed shelf mark: 84 (spine) and manuscript title label, illegible (spine); Pierpont Morgan Library, purcahsed from Lathrop C. Harper, June 1925.
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