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Zabarela super clementinis.

Accession number
PML 25869
Creator
Zabarella, Francesco, 1360-1417.
Object title

Zabarela super clementinis.

Published

Impressa Thaurini : per Nicolaum de Benedictis et Iacobinum Suigum de Sanctogermano, .M.cccclxxxxij. die .xxiij. Augusti [23 August 1492].

Description

[212] leaves ; 42 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r: Zabarela super clementinis.
Imprint from colophon, leaf A6r: Explicit lectura reuerendissimi in Christo patris [et] domini d[omi]ni Francisci de Zabarellis cardinalis dignissimi super Cleme[n]tinis. Impressa Thaurini per Nicolaum de Benedictis [et] Iacobinum Suigu[m] de Sanctogermano exactissma dilige[n]tia ac cura. Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccclxxxxij. die .xxiij. Augusti. [printer's mark]
Printed in Benedictis and Suigus's types 4:ca.200G, 5:120G, and 6:91/92G.
Signatures: a-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁶ A⁶: 212 leaves.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 40.9 x 27.5 cm.
Binding
15th-century blind-stamped sheepskin(?) over wooden boards (42 x 29 cm), sewn on 4 supports at the Augsburg Jagd-Rolle V workshop (EBDB w002144/Kyriss 81, active 1474-1515, also known as Jagd am Zaun Rolle); repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns; plain endbands. 2 clasps, missing.
Variant title
Lectura super Clementinis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Augsburg illuminated author portrait with floral borders and initial (leaf a2r), with contemporary rubrication, red initials; rubricated initial under illuminated initial H (leaf a2r). Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations throughout text. Manuscript title on bottom edge: Zaberella.
Provenance
Innsbruck (Tyrol), Observant Francsicans, Holy Cross, inscription: "Pro Conventu FF. Mino[rum Oeniponti(?) S. Crucem], abraded, partially visible under UV (leaf a1r; previously identified as Würzburg, Franciscans, misreading inscription as "Pro Conventu FF. Minorum Ordinem Sta Cruce"); unidentified shelfmark: L74 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., July 1928.
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Department