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Incipit tractatus beati Thome de diuinis moribus.

Accession number
PML 22000
Creator
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Object title

Incipit tractatus beati Thome de diuinis moribus.

Published

[Cologne] : [Printer of Dares (Johannes Solidi (Schilling))], [not after 1472]

Description

[16] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Dares's type 1:100G.
Collation: [1-2⁸]: 16 leaves, leaf [2]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 13.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/8 (blank).
Binding
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with parchment sides, over paper boards (20.5 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
De divinis moribus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park, bookplate and monogram booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), Syston Park Library sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1938; Payne & Foss, inscription (front endleaf 4 recto); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, notes and price code: [delta epsilon alpha], purchased March 1899 (rear pastedown, preserved from previous binding), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3816; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943) purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1919.
Classification
Century
Department