Accession number:
PML 19605
Published:
[Augsburg] : [Anton Sorg], [not after 1489]
Description:
[216] leaves ; 13 cm (8vo)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1913.
Notes:
Often ascribed to Thomas à Kempis but also to Henricus Arnoldi (cf. Zeitschrift für Katholische Theologie, 1896, p.171).
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Sorg's types 5:75G, 6:150G, and 7:94G.
Dated from an ownership inscription in an Augsburg Staats- und Stadtbibliothek copy (Hubay). Dated about 1490 in Goff.
Signatures: a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A⁸; [*]⁸: 216 leaves, leaf [*]8 blank. Signature [*] (index) signed i, ij, iij, iv, v.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Format given as 16° in BMC, 8° in Polain and Walsh.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 12.3 x 8.7 cm.
Binding:
16th-century Austrian blind-rolled pigskin over wooden boards (13.5 x 10 cm), sewn on 3 supports by the Salzburg VIII (Salzburg St Peter) bindery (EBDB w004071, active 1555-1590). Offset of manuscript waste as front pastedown, plain paper rear endleaves and pastedown; decorative endband; red edges. 2 clasps.
Variant Title:
Gratiarum actiones
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Salzburg (Austria), Benedictines, St. Peter, inscription: "Conventus S. Petri," 16th century (leaf a1r) and binding; unidentified inscription: "Wolfgang S[???] ... anno d[omi]ni [15]80..." (leaf a1r); Pierpont Morgan (1843-1913), purchased from K.W. Hiersemann, Jan. 1913.
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