De oculo morali.

Accession number: 
PML 143
Author: 
Peckham, John, -1292.
Published: 
[Augsburg] : [Anton Sorg], [about 1477]
Description: 
[62] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [2]/1r): Johannis Pithsani archiep[iscop]i Canthuariensis. ordinis fratrum mino[rum] liber de oculo morali foeliciter incipit.
Explicit (leaf [7]/6v): Tractatus (Johannis Pithsani archiepiscopi Cantuariensis) de oculo morali finit feliciter.
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-6¹⁰ 7⁶]: 62 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Erroneously ascribed to Johannes de Peckham. The author is probably Petrus de Limoges, or Lemovicensis (G. Sarton, Introduction to the history of science, II 2, 1931, 1029 and P. Glorieux, Répertoire des maîtres en théologie de Paris au XIIIe siècle, Paris, 1933, I p.364).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.6 x 20.5 cm.

Binding: 
Modern English laced parchment (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, printed lombards painted red, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining; no rubrication in Tabula. Annotations: Some notations in text, incluing NB marks and manicules. "3" on leaf [1]/2r suggests it used to be part of a Sammelband, bound third.

Provenance: 
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code [?]/om/- +___ (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Incunabula
Vellum bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books