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Horologiu[m] eterne sap[ient]ie.

Accession number
PML 30780.5
Creator
Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.
Object title

Horologiu[m] eterne sap[ient]ie.

Published

Alost : Thierry Martens, [between 1486 and 1492]

Description

[90] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r): Incipit utilissim[us] tractat[us] q[ui] intitulatur horologiu[m] eterne sap[ient]ie.
Colophon (leaf p6v): Expliciu[n]t hore de eterna sapi[enti]a: ad quas q[uia] autor horologii d[e] quos s[upra], in cap[itu]lo penultimo secu[n]di libri se remisit: eas eide[m] post ce[n]tum meditatio[n]es passionis d[omi]nice sibi divinit[us] revelatas annecter[e] decrevi. Co[m]plete nec no[n] finite Allosti p[er] theodoricu[m] martini.
Printed in Martens's type 2:72G (half-title and distinctions) and 3:145G.
Dated in HPT. Polain dates before 1487, and Goff about 1490; GW leaves undated.
Collation: a-p⁶: 50 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.8 x 13.2 cm.
PML copy with a tab between leaves a1 and a2 and then a5 and a6, suggesting that either leaf a1.6 or a2.5 is a cancel.
Binding
See PML 30780.1.
Variant title
Horologium aeternae sapientiae.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and green lombard with penwork decroation and gold leaf (leaf a2r), red and green alternating lombards, red paragraph marks and capital strokes (all works in volume rubricated the same). Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations in text.
Provenance
See PML 30780.1.
Classification
Department