Postilla multu[m] sole[m]nis sup[er] epistolas Pauli reuerendi p[at]ris Nicolai de gorran sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ac pruincialis francie ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m]

Accession number:

PML 127294

Author:

Nicolas, de Gorran, 1232-approximately 1295.

Published:

Cologne : Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 1478.

Description:

[406] leaves ; 41 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Harper Funds with the special assistance of Dr. Peter Glum, 1992.

Notes:

The commentary printed under the name of Gorran is in fact that of Innocentius V (F. Stegmueller, Repertorium biblicum medii aevi, 5800).
Title from caption, leaf a2r: Postilla multu[m] sole[m]nis sup[er] epistolas Pauli reuerendi p[at]ris Nicolai de gorran sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ac pruincialis francie ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m] Incipit feliciter.
Printed in Koelhoff's types 5:175G and 6:107G.
Signatures: a-z¹⁰ aa-cc¹⁰ [dd⁸ ee-rr¹⁰ ss⁸]: 406 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.5 x 28.3 cm.
PML copy missing 10 leaves: a1 (blank), a10 (replaced in contemporary manuscript, in same hand as register), and ss1-8 (register from leaves ss3-8 replaced in contemporary manuscript).

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-stamped brown calf over partially-bevelled beech boards (41 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports, by the Cologne Schrotplatten bindery (EBDB w001443/Kryiss 96, active 1487-1510). Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Spine and board edges heavily damaged, remains of paper label on upper board. 2 clasps, missing (catch plates present). Fore edge leather tabs.

Variant Title:

Postilla multum solemnis sper epistolas Pauli reverendi patris Nicolai de Gorran

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary German (Cologne region) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, and red capital strokes; primary initial (leaf a2r) with penword decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Several of the missing leaves (a10 and ss3-8) replaced in early/contemporary manuscript.

Provenance:

Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front fly leaf recto), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 1949; unidentified New York sale, 1836, purchased by Richard Bartlett (1792-1837), inscription (front endleaf 1 recto), who likely passed the book on to: The New Hampshire Historical Soceity, bookplate, dated MDCCCXXIII (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from NHHS on the Harper Funds with the special assistance of Dr. Peter Blum, 1992.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Bevelled edge boards (Binding)

Catches (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books