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Accession number:

PML 78476

Author:

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?)], [approximately 1474-1477]

Description:

[1239] leaves (in 4 volumes) ; 49 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund in memory of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in type 2:93G of the editions ascribed by Ohly to Georg Reyser; the ascription is disputed by Needham, Christie's, Doheny 19.
A copy in Augsburg SStB has a buyer's inscription dated 1477. A copy in Sélestat has a buyer's inscription dated 'XVIII. Kal Maji', 1477 (Zehnacker). BSB-Ink dates as "not after 14 April 1477."
Collation, vol. I: [1-13¹⁰ 14¹⁰(+1) 15-27¹⁰ 28⁸ 29-39¹⁰ 40-42⁸]: 413 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank; vol. II: [1-6¹⁰ 7⁴ 8-14¹⁰ 15⁸ 16⁴(+1) 17-24¹⁰ 25⁴]: 235 leaves; vol. III: [1-2¹⁰ 3-4⁸ 5-6¹⁰ 7-8⁸ 9-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-26¹⁰ 27⁸ 28¹⁰]: 268 leaves, leaf [28]/10 blank; vol. IV: [1-9¹⁰ 10¹² 11-13¹⁰ 14⁶ 15⁸ 16-24¹⁰ 25⁸ 26⁸(+1) 27-33¹⁰]: 323 leaves, leaf [33]/10 blank. Variant collation in BSB-Ink.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
Guillelmus Brito: Expositiones (commenary); Paulus de Sancta Maria: Additiones; Matthias Doering: Replicationes
PML copy leaf dimensions: 46.9 x 32.5 cm.
PML copy is vol. III only, missing 1 leaf: [28]/10 (blank).

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-stamped sheepskin over wooden boards (49 x 34 cm), sewn on 6 supports, probably in Trier, with tools similar to those assigned to the Tiere in Kreis* workshop (EBDB w000288). Vellum pastedowns; decorative endbands. Clasps and metal edge pieces, 1 clasp missing; chain hasp on bottom edge of rear board.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, headlines, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl (d. ca. 1960?), of Achstetten, his sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 October 1985, lot 115; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased at Bloomsbury on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund in memory of Dr. Curt F. Bühler, Nov. 1985.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Century:

15th century

Department:

Printed Books