Incipit p[fo]logus in libru[m] de amore libro[rum] qui dicitur philobiblon.

Accession number: 
PML 90
Author: 
Bury, Richard de, 1287-1345.
Published: 
Colonie impressus : [Printer of Augustinus, 'De fide'], M cccc.lxxiij [1473].
Description: 
[48] leaves ; 20 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
City and date from colophon, leaf [6]/8r: Explicit philobiblon sci[licet] liber de amore libroru[m] Colonie i[m]pressus anno d[omi]ni M cccc.lxxiij. [et]c. Printer from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Augustinus, 'De fide' type 1:105G.
The printer has been identified with Goiswin Gops and with Johann Schilling (cf. Corsten(Anfänge) pp.44-45 and Needham, Ars impressoria, pp.126-28).
Collation: [1-6⁸]: 48 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
A copy noted in BMC with different typesetting in the first quire.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19 x 13.5 cm.

Binding: 
Modern quarter brown goatskin, with red paper sides, over paper boards (20 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubricaton, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: Marginal notations by Inglis throughout. 3 sale lot descriptions pasted to rear pastedown (preserved from previous binding).

Provenance: 
John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870), shelfmark: Case 33 (front endleaf 4 recto) and cut-out prints, including armorial (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), Inglis used this copy to prepare his English translation published by Thomas Rodd in 1832; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown, preserved from previous binding), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Quarter bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books