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Scrutinium scripturarum.

Accession number
PML 16361
Creator
Pablo de Santa Maria, Bishop of Burgos, approximately 1351-1435.
Object title

Scrutinium scripturarum.

Published

[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [not after 1470]

Description

[218] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Printed in Mentelin's type 5:92b (BMC).
The Eichstätt copy has a rubricator's date 1470 (ISTC).
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-10¹⁰ 11⁸ 12-17¹⁰ 18¹² 19-21¹⁰ 22⁶]: 218 leaves, leaves [22]/5-6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Author also known as Paulo Burgensis.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.1 x 20.5 cm.
Binding
17th/18th-century parchment over paper boards (29 x 22 cm), sewn on four supports. Gilt-stamped title labels on spine. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves (rear pastedown is leaf [22]/6); decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards and paragraph marks. Annotations: Contemporary alpha-numeric quire signatures added in bottom right corner, some trimmed. Contemporary marginal notes throughout.
Provenance
Inscription, sixteenth-century, "Ego p[ate]r B.V.T. Anno 1572 finitui(?) die ij mensis Maij" (leaf [22]/4v); Constantini Ziocomi, Milan, inscription (leaf [22]/4v); unidentified oval library stamp with shelf mark 660 S, "Cair[?]" (leaf [1]/1r); shelf marks: N. 216/1 and N. 660 (front pastedown); bookplate removed (front pastedown); Italian sale catalogue description (Martini?), ca. 1900 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Oct. 1909.
Classification
Century
Department