Horologiu[m] eterne sap[ient]ie.

Accession number: 
PML 30780.5
Author: 
Seuse, Heinrich, 1295-1366.
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: 
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