Opuscula.

Accession number:

PML 42632

Author:

Vincent, of Beauvais, -1264.

Published:

[Basel] : [Johann Amerbach], [13 December 1481]

Description:

[338] leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased in 1951.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf Q9v: Regia co[m]mendat vrbs Basileae satis. / De Amerbach natus nomen sibi forte Ioha[n]nes : / Finem operi imposuit: dum pia virgo parit. // Idib[us] Dece[m]brib[us] Anno a Christi natali die octauagesimop[ri]mo supra millesimu[m] quaterq[ue] centesimu[m] [i.e. 13 Dec. 1481].
Printed in Amberbach's types 1:185G, 3:92G, and 5:97/106G.
Signatures: [1]⁶; a¹⁰ b-c⁸ d-p¹⁰·⁸ q⁸ r-v¹⁰·⁸ x⁸ y A-E¹⁰·⁸ F-H⁸ I¹⁰ K-P⁸ Q¹⁰: 338 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Contents listed, leaf [1]/1v: Item in presenti volumine continent[ur] infrascripti libri ȩditi a venerabili patre Vincentio Beluaven[sis]. Item liber gratiȩ. Item liber laudu[m] virginis gloriosȩ. Item liber de sancto Ioha[n]ne eua[n]gelista. Item liber de eruditione puero[rum] regaliu[m]. Item liber consolatori[us] de morte amici.
Printed in double columns, 47 lines and head line per page. Spaces with guide letter left for capitals.
The De eruditione filliorum regalium was dedicated to Queen Margaret. The Consolatio pro morte amici was written on the death of Louis, son of Louis IX.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.6 x 21.7 cm.

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over partially-bevelled wooden boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 4 supports possibly by Jacob Spindler in Basel (EBDB w000046/Kyriss 64, active ca. 1485-1500). Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 2 clasps, 1 missing.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Johann Froben (d. 1527), inscription: "Ioannis frobenii ex Hamelburg" (front pastedown); Remigius Faesch (1595-1667), inscription "R. Feschi b." (leaf [1]/2r) and Faeschisches Museum stamp (leaf [1]/1v), merged with University of Basel, 1823; unidentified (Faesch or UBasel?) shelf mark: a 317 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Emil Hirsch, July 1951.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Metal clasps (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books