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Carmen iuvenile Suplicii Verulani de moribus in mensa servandis.

Accession number
PML 127962.1
Creator
Sulpitius Verulanus, Joannes, active 15th century.
Object title

Carmen iuvenile Suplicii Verulani de moribus in mensa servandis.

Published

[Poitiers] : [Jean Bouyer and Guillaume Bouchet], [approximately 1500]

Description

[8] leaves ; 19 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 1997.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf A1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Bouyer's types 6:90G and 7:63/64G.
Signatures: A⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Initial spaces, with guide letters. 1 column. Blind bearer type (Bouyer's initial set c), leaf A8v.
Commentary by Jodocus Badius Ascensius.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.5 x 13.8 cm.
Binding
Modern laced limp parchment (19.5 x 14.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports by Deborah Evetts. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Previous (19th/20th-century, Spanish?) stiff vellum binding preserved in box.
Variant title
De moribus puerorum carmen juvenile
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: 16th/17th-century marginal notations throughout, in 2-3 southern French/Spanish hands (perhaps 1 hand found in all 4 parts of Sammelband). Pen trials, including "lla nueva," "Al hic" and "pues quiess" (leaf A8v).
Provenance
Nicholaus Legost, inscription, 16th century (leaf C6v of Bucolica); Dorothy Sloan (Austin, TX), auction 4 (1997), lot 10; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Sloan (via E.K. Schreiber) on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, April 1997.
Classification
Century
Department