Accession number
PML 83
Creator
Robertus, de Sancto Remigio.
Object title
Historia Hierosolymitana, sive historia itineris contra Turcos.
Published
[Cologne] : [Printer of Dares (Johannes Solidi (Schilling))], [about 1472]
Description
[126] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Author also known as Robertus Monachus.
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Dares type 1:100G.
Collation: [1-9⁸ 10⁶ 11-16⁸]: 126 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
Includes extracts from the Historia of Fulcherius Carnotensis.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Dares type 1:100G.
Collation: [1-9⁸ 10⁶ 11-16⁸]: 126 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
Includes extracts from the Historia of Fulcherius Carnotensis.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.
Binding
18th-century English red morocco over paper boards (21 x 15.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked by Sanford & Clarke. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Historia itineris contra Turcos
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Lower Rhine rubrication, primary initial in blue with red penwork decoration, red initials and paragraph marks, and yellow capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures.
Provenance
Charles Spencer (1674-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelfmark: KK 3: 70 (front endleaf 1 verso), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bernard Quaritch, Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased March 1883 (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front endleaf 1 recto) and purchase notes: No. 157, 8/5/96 and price code: od/-/- +com (front endleaf 1 verso), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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