De[us] cu[m] tua gr[ati]a sapie[n]tia et amore incipit ars brevis.

Accession number: 
PML 44866.5
Author: 
Llull, Ramon, 1232?-1316.
Published: 
Impressu[m] Barchinone [Barcelona] : p[er] Petru[m] posa presbiteru[m] et Petrum bru [sic] socios, Anno millesimo .cccc° .lxxxi° .xxi. septe[m]bris [12 September 1481].
Description: 
[30] leaves : illustrations (diagrams, volvelles) ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1953.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r: De[us] cu[m] tua gr[ati]a sapie[n]tia et amore incipit ars brevis: q[ue] e[st] ymago artis: q[ue] sic intitulat[ur]. De[us] cu[m] tua su[m]ma p[er]fect[i]o[n]e i[n]cipit ars generalis [et]c.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [3]/7v: Deo dante: diviniu[m] opus ars brevis reverendissimi magistri Raymundi lull nuncupatu[m]: Anno millesimo .cccc° .lxxxi° .xxi. septe[m]bris: p[er] Petru[m] posa presbiteru[m] et Petrum bru [sic] socios impressu[m] Barchinone opti[m]e fideliterq[eu] finiuit.
Printed in Posa's type 1:110G.
Signatures: [1¹² 2¹⁰ 3⁸]: 30 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [3]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Typographic diagrams and volvelle (leaf [1]/6r); diagram on leaf [1]/3v printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 14.8 cm.

Binding: 
16th-century (early 1500s) German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (22 x 16 cm), sewn on 2 bands. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges. 2 clasps, missing.
Variant Title: 

Ars brevis

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: German rubrication (same throughout volume), alternating red and blue initials, red capital strokes and underlining, dated 1500 (leaf b9v of Janua artis). Annotations: Several contemporary marginal notations throughout (different hand than rest of volume); in another hand (also not same as rest of volume) notes on consecration of the Coprus Christi mention town of Seefeld (Bavaria or Tyrol?). Contempoary foliation, by Pol(?) (with more modern version of 4, 5, and 7 than typically seen in 15th century).

Provenance: 
Nicolaus Pol (about 1470-1532), annotations throughout first, second, and fourth works in volume and contents list (front pastedown); unidentified shelfmark: S (fore edge); Lathrop C. Harper, cat. 156 (Oct. 1928), no. 485; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, June 1953.
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