Expositio brevis & utilis super toto psalterio.

Accession number:

PML 20496

Author:

Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.

Published:

Rome : Wolf Han (Lupus Gallus), 21 February 1476.

Description:

[204] leaves ; 29 x 20.5 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from colophon (leaf [20]/7r): Reverendissimi Cardinalis sancti Sixti Expositio brevis & utilis super toto Psalterio: Rome Impressa die vicesimaprima me[n]sis Februarii: sedete Sixto quarto pontifice maximo: per providum virum magistrum Lupum gallum fr[atr]em m[a]g[istr]i Udalici galli de Bienna. Anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo septuageimosexto. Finit feliciter.
Printed in types 2:103R, 1:150G, and 5:125G.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4¹² 5-12¹⁰ 13¹² 14¹⁰ 15¹² 16-19¹⁰ 20⁸]: 204 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto
A close reprint, mostly page-for-page of the edition Rome: Ulrich Han, 1470 (Goff T-517) (BMC).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 19.5 cm.

Binding:

Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (29 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; yellow edges. Former endleaves with manuscript annotations previously removed from binding now in ChL files in Printed Books department.

Variant Title:

Checklist title: Expositio Psalterii

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Illuminated Italian (Ferrara?) initial with foliate border, slightly sloppy, with roundel with empty shield in bottom margin (leaf [1]/1r), alternating red and blue lombards with blue/red penwork. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown); not in his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books