Accession number
PML 89
Creator
Pius II, Pope, 1405-1464.
Object title
Dialogus contra Bohemos atque Thaboritas de sacra communione corporis Christi.
Published
[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [not after 1472]
Description
[32] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G
PML copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-4⁸]: 32 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.
Printed in Zel's type 1b:106/111G
PML copy listed under Division A. $3 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-4⁸]: 32 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.
Binding
19th-century (French?) yellow goatskin over paper boards (20 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initial and capital strokes (leaf [1]/1r only). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified French bibliographic notes (laid-in before front endleaf 2) and sale inscription (front endleaf 2 recto); Howel Wills (1854-1901?), bibliographic inscription and signature (front endleaf 1 verso), his sale, Sotheby's, 11 July 1894; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: [No. 75, ?/?/96] (erased, front endleaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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