Accession number
PML 77096
Object title
Vita de sancto Theodero verso de Pavia in volgare.
Published
Impressu[m] Papie : p[er] magistru[m] Andrea[m] d[e] boscho, Anno d[omi]ni Mcccc. die .x. Aprilis [10 April 1500]
Description
[8] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the assistance of Mr. Charles R. Blyth, Mr. James R. Houghton, Mrs. Mabel S. Ingalls, Mrs. Harold M. Landon, and Miss Estelle Magowan, 1981.
Notes
The authorship has been attributed to St. Sisinnius (Goff).
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b4r.
Printed in de Boscho's type 5:77G.
Signatures: a-b⁴: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Royal octavo in half-sheets.
Translated by Giovanni Matteo Migliardi.
1 column, 38 lines. Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.4 x 14.5 cm.
Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b4r.
Printed in de Boscho's type 5:77G.
Signatures: a-b⁴: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Royal octavo in half-sheets.
Translated by Giovanni Matteo Migliardi.
1 column, 38 lines. Capital spaces, with printed guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.4 x 14.5 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century Italian stiff sheepskin over paper boards (21 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves: 2 blank quires of 8 leaves bound before and after text, outer leaf used as pastedown; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Vita de sancto Theodoro
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Previously removed for an unidentified Sammelband, foliated 127-134, perhaps 17th century; Heussner, Catalogue d'une riche collection de livres anciens et modernes, Brussels, 4 Oct. 1853, lot 269; Giuseppe Martini, signature (front pastedown); H.P. Kraus, cat. 83, no. 174; Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), booklabels (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 133, to Kraus for Morgan; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased with the assistance of Mr. Charles R. Blyth, Mr. James R. Houghton, Mrs. Mabel S. Ingalls, Mrs. Harold M. Landon, and Miss Estelle Magowan, April 1981.
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