Accession number
PML 19602
Object title
Rudimentum novitiorum.
Published
In urbe Lubicana : per magistrum Lucam Brandis de Schass, Mcccclxxv, ipso die sa[n]ctissimi regis & martiris oswaldi [5 August 1475]
Description
[474] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 39.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1913.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Colophon, leaf [49]/4r: Anno s[ecundu]m Filii Dei a Natiuitate. M.cccclxxv⁰. Ipso die sa[n]ctissimi regis & martiris oswaldi ... Imp[er]iali nobili in vrbe Lubicana, arte imp[re]ssoria. speciali gr[ati]a diuina a[n]i[m]aru[m] ob salute[m] fideliu[m] inuenta, Epithoma istud partes in sex, iuxta mu[n]di sex etates diuisum. pri[us] alibi n[on] rep[er]tu[m]. Q[uo]d placuit Rudime[n]tum nouicioru[m] intitulari Dei adiutorio, qui sup[er]nas res ac subternas, fortiter, suauiter, tra[n]q[ui]lleq[ue] dispe[n]sat Per m[a]g[ist]r[u]m Lucam Bra[n]dis de Schass feliciter e[st] excusu[m] at[que] finitu[m] ...
Printed in Brandis's type 1:120/122G.
Collation: [*¹⁰(8+1: "Solon. ezechias"); 1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3-4¹⁰ 5-6⁸ 7-8¹⁰ 9¹² 10⁸(4+1: "Cuius gens fortis") 11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-18¹² 19¹⁴ 20-22¹⁰ 23⁶ 24⁴; 25-30¹⁰; 31¹⁰ 32-37⁸/¹⁰ 38¹⁰ 39⁶ 40-41¹⁰ 42⁸ 43¹²; 44¹⁰ 45¹² 46⁶ 47¹² 48¹⁰ 49⁶]: 474 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [49]/5-6 blank. The make-up of the first quire seems to vary considerably between copies. Cambridge UL identifies leaf [*]1 as blank and additional leaf after leaf [*]10 rather than [*]8. Copies at PML, BSB, and LoC have a second impression of chronology cut from leaf [*]6v ("HBDACFCG. Ofni & Finees") on [*]1r, conjoint with [*]10; this leaf printed on crown paper (rest of quire on D/cross paper), typically found at end of volume (as in PML copy).
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcuts, including full-page historiated lineages/chronologies, illustrations, and two maps.
For variants, see CIBN R-220.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 37.5 x 28.2 cm, trimmed; temoin leaf [28]/4: 37.5 x 29.3 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: [41]/4-5, replaced from another copy without foliation and different rubrication, and [49]/5-6 (blanks).
Colophon, leaf [49]/4r: Anno s[ecundu]m Filii Dei a Natiuitate. M.cccclxxv⁰. Ipso die sa[n]ctissimi regis & martiris oswaldi ... Imp[er]iali nobili in vrbe Lubicana, arte imp[re]ssoria. speciali gr[ati]a diuina a[n]i[m]aru[m] ob salute[m] fideliu[m] inuenta, Epithoma istud partes in sex, iuxta mu[n]di sex etates diuisum. pri[us] alibi n[on] rep[er]tu[m]. Q[uo]d placuit Rudime[n]tum nouicioru[m] intitulari Dei adiutorio, qui sup[er]nas res ac subternas, fortiter, suauiter, tra[n]q[ui]lleq[ue] dispe[n]sat Per m[a]g[ist]r[u]m Lucam Bra[n]dis de Schass feliciter e[st] excusu[m] at[que] finitu[m] ...
Printed in Brandis's type 1:120/122G.
Collation: [*¹⁰(8+1: "Solon. ezechias"); 1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3-4¹⁰ 5-6⁸ 7-8¹⁰ 9¹² 10⁸(4+1: "Cuius gens fortis") 11¹⁰ 12⁸ 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17-18¹² 19¹⁴ 20-22¹⁰ 23⁶ 24⁴; 25-30¹⁰; 31¹⁰ 32-37⁸/¹⁰ 38¹⁰ 39⁶ 40-41¹⁰ 42⁸ 43¹²; 44¹⁰ 45¹² 46⁶ 47¹² 48¹⁰ 49⁶]: 474 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [49]/5-6 blank. The make-up of the first quire seems to vary considerably between copies. Cambridge UL identifies leaf [*]1 as blank and additional leaf after leaf [*]10 rather than [*]8. Copies at PML, BSB, and LoC have a second impression of chronology cut from leaf [*]6v ("HBDACFCG. Ofni & Finees") on [*]1r, conjoint with [*]10; this leaf printed on crown paper (rest of quire on D/cross paper), typically found at end of volume (as in PML copy).
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcuts, including full-page historiated lineages/chronologies, illustrations, and two maps.
For variants, see CIBN R-220.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 37.5 x 28.2 cm, trimmed; temoin leaf [28]/4: 37.5 x 29.3 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: [41]/4-5, replaced from another copy without foliation and different rubrication, and [49]/5-6 (blanks).
Binding
Late 16th/17th-century German (Scheyern) blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (39.5 x 31 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; dark blue edges. 2 claps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication at Scheyern, alternating red and blue initials; primary initial illuminated with foliate border (leaf [1]/2r). Scheyern armorial sketched into shield in printed border (leaf [*]2r). Woodcuts hand colored (ignoring out-of-order cut on leaf [*]1r). Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout text, including several by Scheyern monk/scribe Frater Placidus, typically highlighting important aspects related to Bavarian history and including a note on the founding of Scheyern (leaf [40]/4r). Contemporary Roman numeral foliation on versos, I-CCCCVIII (leaves [2]/1v-[43]/9v). Alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures partially visible, mainly trimmed.
Provenance
Scheyern (Bavaria), Benedictines, Virgin Mary, 15th-century rubrication, 16th/17th-century binding, and 18th-century inscription: "Monasterij Scheyrensis," partially abraded (leaf [1]/2r); Munich, Court Library, duplicate, shelfmark: Inc. Typ. No. 999 (front endleaf 1 recto); Laurence W. Hodson (1863-1933), Compton Hall, near Wolverhampton, booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 3 Dec. 1906; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Baer & Co., Feb. 1913.
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