Scolastica hystoria super nouum testamentum cu[m] additionib[us] atq[ue] incidentiis.

Accession number:

PML 21963

Author:

Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century.

Published:

Impressa in Traiecto inferiori : per magistros Nycolaum Ketelaer et Gherardum de Leempt, M°.cccc°.lxxiii° [1473].

Description:

[144] leaves ; 28.5 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.

Notes:

Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [14]/11v: Scolastica hystoria sup[er] nouu[m] testamentu[m] cum additionib[us] atq[ue] incidentiis. explicit felicit[er]. Impressa i[n] traiecto inferiori per magistros Nycolaum ketelaer et Gherardu[m] de Leempt. M°.cccc°.lxxiii°.
Printed in Ketelaer and de Leempt's type 1:122G.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰ 8¹²; 9-13¹⁰ 14¹²]: 144 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [14]/12 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Edition in two states: a) incipit: Scolastica hystoria super nouum testementum cu[m] additionib[us] atq[ue] incidentiis (leaf [1]/2r) and b) incipit: Secunda pars hystorie scholastice: que est de nouo testamento (leaf [1]/2r), with other leaves reset.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: [1]/1 and [14]/12 (blanks).

Binding:

18th-century English full brown calf over paper boards (28.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey, Jan. 1926. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.

Variant Title:

Historia scholastica.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Light ruling. Annotations: No marginal notations in text, some (modern?) pencil strokes.

Provenance:

Unidentified German collection, pencil shelfmark: "Kasse 24/150" (front pastedown); unidentified ink shelfmark: "B5:40" (front endleaf 1 verso); Sir Thomas Brooke, Bart. of Armitage Bridge (1830-1908), armorial bookplate (front pastedown), not recorded in Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Printed Books Collected by Thomas Brooke, F.S.A., and Preserved at Armitage Bridge House, near Huddersfield (1891), collection inherited and dispersed through various sources, see De Ricci, English Book Collectors, 167-68, including his sale, Sotheby's, 26 May 1921; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Gilhofer & Ranschburg, Jan. 1923.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books