Accession number:
PML 660.1
Uniform title:
Devote materien.
Published:
Schoonhoven : Canonici Regulares apud S. Michaelem in Den Hem, 31 August 1503.
Description:
[120] leaves ; 14 x 10.5 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes:
Title and imprint from Nijhoff & Kronenberg.
Incipit (leaf c.1r): Een geestelike mi[n]nebrief die ih[esu]s [christu]s coninc der glorie[n] seinde tot sijnre bruyt der mi[n]nender ziele[n].
Collation: *⁸ i⁸ [2.]⁸ [3.]⁸ A⁸ B⁴ [a..]⁸ [b..]⁸ a.-c.⁸ **⁸ ***⁸ a⁸ b⁴ c.⁴ d⁸: 120 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo
Entered by Goff as Een geestelijke Minnebrief, working from the imperfect copy at PML (see M.E. Kronenberg in BSA 1955 pp.249-52).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.3 x 9.5 cm.
PML copy is quire c.⁸ (c. altered to look like an a) only.
Binding:
Modem full red goatskin over paper boards (14 x 10.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports by R. Petit. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands.
Variant Title:
In desen boeke salmen vijnden dese navolghende devote materien
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, blue lombard with red penwork and red capital strokes. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance:
Miscellaneous sale, Sotheby's London, 17 Feb. 1897, to Pickering (for Bennett?) for £11; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 253, 17/2/97 and price code: wo/o/- (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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