Accession number:
PML 15469.1
Published:
[Rome] : [Wolf Han (Lupus Gallus)], [about 1476]
Description:
[14] leaves ; 29.5 x 20.5 cm (4to and fol.)
Credit Line:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes:
At least three different settings-up are known of the first two (or three) lines, described by H, C, and R. The UIllL copy may show a fourth variant.
Collation: [1⁸; 2⁶]: 14 leaves, leaf [2]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto half-sheets and chancery folio
PML copy is variant B.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.6 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/6 (blank).
Printed in types 2:103R and 1:150G (incipit and some incipit initials).
Proctor assigned to Ulrich Han.
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): De potestate Romani Pontificis et generalis concilii.
Binding:
18th-century French gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Derome le Jeune, with his ticket. Blue silk pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Illuminated foliate border and initial (Bruges style, ca. 1480s); no other rubrication required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Unidentified English sale catalogue, offered for £6.6s (cut out and pasted to rear pastedown); John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), armorial (front pastedown) and shelf mark: + E. C 113/32 (113 crossed out and changed to 32), cut-out prints, and contents list (front fly leaf); his sale, 9 June 1826, 31 July 1871, or 11 June 1900?; unidentified French catalogue description (Rahir?), no. 43 (front fly leaf); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Rahir, 1907.
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