Accession number
PML 19116.5
Object title
Propositiones responsivae ad quaestionem de observantia dominicalium dierum.
Published
[Cologne] : [Printer of Dictys (Arnold Ther Hoernen)], [not after 19 September 1470]
Description
22.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Dictys type 1:99G.
Polain describes a copy with purchase date 'xix sept. M.cccclxx'.
Collation: [1⁶]: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm.
Printed in the Printer of Dictys type 1:99G.
Polain describes a copy with purchase date 'xix sept. M.cccclxx'.
Collation: [1⁶]: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.5 x 14.5 cm.
Binding
15th-century German pigskin (tooled only with fillets in blind) over wooden boards (22.5 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns, with vellum reinforcement around book block; plain endbands. 1 strap/peg clasp, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (same style in works 1-3 and 5 in volume). Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations throughout text. Manuscript table of contents for Sammelband (front endleaf 1 recto) and extensive notes at end of volume, including text De complexionibus (see Werner Seyfert, “Ein Komplexionentext einer Leipziger Inkunabel (Angeblich eines Johann von Neuhaus) und seine Handschriftliche Herleitung aus der Zeit nach 1300.” Archiv für Geschichte der Medizin 20, no. 3 (1928): 272-99) and several sermons.
Provenance
Ownership inscription torn away (De simonia, leaf [1]/1r); C. Deterich, signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Eduard Rahir, April 1911.
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