Praeceptorium divinae legis, sive Expositio decalogi.

Accession number: 
PML 23621
Author: 
Nider, Johannes, approximately 1380-1438.
Published: 
Argentinensis : ac per providum Ieorium Husner, ydus februarii. Anno [etc] lxxvi [13 February 1476].
Description: 
[332] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1926.
Notes: 

Title and author from incipit (leaf [4]/1r): "Incipit p[ro]logus i[n] expositione[m] decalogi s[ecundu]m Iohanne[m] Nider sacre theologie p[ro]fessorem ordinis p[re]dicator[um]."
Imprint from colophon (leaf [33]/9r): Iohannis nyder sacre pagis Egregii doctoris ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m] Conventualis nure[m]bergensis p[re]ceptorii p[re]clarissimum op[us]. quoda[m] digne ad mirac[i]o[n]is mo[do]. No[n] pennis ut pristi quide[m]. sed l[ette]ris sculptis artificiali certe conatu ex ere Remota ne[n]pe indigine. Ingeniiq[ue] diversa inq[u]etac[i]one illustre figuratu[m]. accurate deniq[ue] correctu[m]. Ac per p[ro]vidum Ieoriu[m] husner cive[m] urbis famose argentinensis [com]pletum ac terminatu[m] est ydus februarii. Anno [etc] lxxvi."
Printed in Husner's type 1:102G.
Collation: [1¹² 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-16¹⁰ 17¹² 18-33¹⁰]: 332 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [33]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.9 x 20.9 cm.

Binding: 
Contemporary German (Basel?) blind-filetted pigskin over bevelled wooden boards (30 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 double supports. Manuscript quire guards. 2 clasps, 1 wanting but with strap extant; pierced brass clasps and catch plates. Plain paper pastedowns; decorative endbands. Manuscript title on spine, worn.
Variant Title: 

Expositio decalogi

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, capital strokes, and paragraph marks in most of the volume, some sections unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notes in several hands. Modern foliation.

Provenance: 
Johannes de Herborn (d. ca. 1524), donation inscription [to University of Basel?]: "Comp[ar]atus [est] liber iste Expe[n]s[is] m[a]g[ist]ri Joh[annis] d[e] Herborn sac[rae] theo[logiae] for[ma]tus in studio ba[siliensi]s anno lxxv" (front pastedown), Herborn was rector of the University of Basel 1483 and 1498 and chaplain of the Basel Minster in 1493 (Univ. Basel owns about 25 incunabula donated by Herborn); stamp, abraded and pencil shelf mark, "N. A. [?] 10a" and "dpl" inscription, partially erased (leaf [1]/2r); scalloped, oval shelf mark label, "[?]09" (spine); Vienna, Bundesdenkmalamt, stamps (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., May 1926.
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