Rosetu[m] exercitioru[m] sp[irit]ualiu[m] et sacrarum meditationu[m].

Accession number:

PML 27322

Author:

Mauburnus, Johannes.

Published:

[Zwolle] : [Peter van Os], M.cccc.xciiij [1494].

Description:

[10], I-CCLXXVIII leaves (with mistakes) : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1930.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf (1/1r.
Imprint from ISTC. Date from colophon, leaf BB6r: Opus egregiu[m] cuiq[ue] sacerdoti ac religioso perutile feliciter explicit. Ad laude[m] su[m]me t[ri]nitat[is] inecnu[m] Anno salut[is] M.cccc.xciiij.
Printed on Van Os's types 8:100G ,9:71G, and 10:63/64G.
Signatures: (1⁶ (2⁴; a⁸ b-o⁶ p⁸; q-x⁶; A-Z AA-BB⁶: 290 leaves, leaves p8 and x6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
2 woodcuts: (leaf (1/1r) from the blockbook Canticum canticorum, edition I, leaf [1]/1r (upper half); hand diagram (leaf c1v).
With the poem "Nosse volens dictus ..." (see Walther, Initia, 12296)
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.8 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: p8 and x6 (blanks).

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (30 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports in Nuremberg, with tools assigned to the Bogenfries workshop (EBDB w000375/Kyriss 118, active 1478-1517, also known as Haller-Meister workshop); rebacked by Duprez Lahey, 1930. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; modern plain endbands. 2 clasps, 1 missing. "Rosetu[m]" written on bottom edge.

Variant Title:

Rosetum exercitiorum spiritualium et sacrarum meditationum

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary southern German rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and brackets. Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations and NB marks sporadically in text, in several hands, including one in rubricator's red (leaves a5r, a6r and F2r).

Provenance:

Jacob Frank, inscription, including Ps. 118:130: "Fr. P. Jacobus Franckh Ordinis Divi P. Benedicti. In declaratio sermonum tuorum illuminat: et intellectum dat parvulis," 17th/18th century (leaf (1/1r); two unidentified typed dealer descriptions, one in German the other English (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., March 1930.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books