Accession number
PML 75838.1
Creator
Nider, Johannes, approximately 1380-1438.
Object title
Manuale confessorum.
Published
[Strasbourg] : [C.W.], [not after 1471]
Description
[58] leaves ; 28 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in memory of Commander Conrad Alexander Bühler, 1979.
Notes
Assigned to C.W. (sometimes identified tentatively as Clas Wencker or Conrad Wolfach) by Needham, "Four Strasburg Incunables." Formerly attributed to Koberger by Hain; cf BMC II 409 doubting the ascription to Koberger.
Printed in C.W.'s type 1:110G.
Dating based upon common printing with Nider, De morali lepra (ISTC in00189000); see PML 75838.2/ChL 103K.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6⁸]: 58 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy with some marginal staining. Leaf [1]/1r with provenace inscription and illuminated initial washed.
Printed in C.W.'s type 1:110G.
Dating based upon common printing with Nider, De morali lepra (ISTC in00189000); see PML 75838.2/ChL 103K.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6⁸]: 58 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.4 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy with some marginal staining. Leaf [1]/1r with provenace inscription and illuminated initial washed.
Binding
18th-century French mottled calf with gilt stamping over paper boards (28 x 22 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Northeastern French/Flemish illumianted initial (leaf [1]/1r), red and blue lombards and paragraph marks (C-type), red capital strokes (same in PML 75838.2); some capital strokes like tiny paragraph marks. Headlines with Roman numeral for book number and "pars" cypher. Double-line ink ruling in margins for notes. Annotations: Marginal annotations in a very small, compact hand with line-fillers to complete text block. A few textual corrections (some set in scrolls) and "Nota" cypher.
Provenance
Contemporary inscription, abraded "Ex [?] [?]Clarolensis contra [?]" (Clairlieu Abbey, Cistercian?), with shelf mark(?): D (leaf [1]/1r of Manuale); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased in memory of Commander Conrad Alexander Bühler from L.C. Harper, March 1979.
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