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Incipit tractatus de [con]tractibus marcatorum / reuere[n]di p[at]ris fratris Ioh[ann]is Nider sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ordinis predicato[rum].

Accession number
PML 19116.3
Creator
Nider, Johannes, approximately 1380-1438.
Object title

Incipit tractatus de [con]tractibus marcatorum / reuere[n]di p[at]ris fratris Ioh[ann]is Nider sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ordinis predicato[rum].

Published

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1468]

Description

[30] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Title from incipit caption.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1a:99G.
PML copy listed under Division A. $2 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-3⁸ 4⁶]: 30 leaves, leaf [4]/6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm.
Binding
15th-century German pigskin (tooled only with fillets in blind) over wooden boards (22.5 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns, with vellum reinforcement around book block; plain endbands. 1 strap/peg clasp, missing.
Variant title
De contractibus mercatorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (same style in works 1-3 and 5 in volume). Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations throughout text. Manuscript table of contents for Sammelband (front endleaf 1 recto) and extensive notes at end of volume. Alpha-numeric quire signatures.
Provenance
Ownership inscription torn away (De simonia, leaf [1]/1r); C. Deterich, signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Eduard Rahir, April 1911.
Classification
Century
Department