Quadragesimale de floribus sapie[n]tie.

Accession number: 
PML 16835
Author: 
Spiera, Ambrosius de, -1454.
Published: 
Venice : Vindelinus de Spira, 18 December 1476.
Description: 
[512] leaves ; 29 x 21 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Incipit quadragesimale de floribus sapie[n]tie peroptimu[m] editu[m] [et] co[m]pilatu[m] per egregiu[m] sacre theologie doctore[m] Magistrum Ambrosiu[m] spiera tarvisinu[m] ordinis frat[rum] servoru[m] sancte marie ad die laudem [et] ei[us] matris totiusq[ue] curie sup[re]me. Assit ergo principio virgo maria meo.
Colophon (leaf [con][con]4v): Quadragesimale de florib[us] sapientie p[er]optimu[m] p[er] sacre theologie p[ro]fessore[m] eximiu[m] fratre[m] Ambrosiu[m] de Spira Tarvisinu[m] ordinis s[er]vo[rum] sancte Marie virgi[ni]s intacte [christ]i Jesu genitricis gloriosissime elega[n]ter editu[m]: [et] p[er] mag[ist]r[u]m Vendelinu[m] de Spira alamanu[m] in urbe Venetia[rum] litteris eneis imp[re]ssu[m]: finit feliciter Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadrigentesimoseptuagesimosexto. die .18. me[n]sis decembris.
Printed in types 5:89G and 6:160G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2⁸]; a-l¹⁰ m⁸ N⁶ n-z¹⁰ aa-ii¹⁰ kk¹² ll-rr¹⁰ ss¹² [long-s][long-s]¹⁰ tt-zz¹⁰ [et][et]¹⁰ [con][con]⁶: 512 leaves, leaves [1]/1, a1, and [con][con]5-6 blank. Quire [1] signed 2-5, [2] signed 6-9.
Chancery folio (28.4 x 19.8 cm)
PML wanting 2 leaves: [con][con]5-6 (blanks).
PML copy listed under Second Press in Checklist.

Binding: 
17th/18th-century(?) vellum spine with later paper sides (29 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; yellow edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary headlines and foliation (mostly trimmed away).

Provenance: 
Unidentified British sale catalogue description, no. 87 for £5 10s; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, June 1910.
Classification: 
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