Accession number
PML 127561
Creator
Burlaeus, Gualterus, 1275-1345?
Object title
Incipit liber de vita et moribus philosophoru[m].
Published
[Cologne : Printer of the 'Flores Sancti Augustini' (Johann Schilling), for William Caxton, about 1472].
Description
[58] leaves ; 27 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund and as the special gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1993.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r).
The printer is tentatively identified as Johann Veldener by S. Corsten, in Journal of the Printing Historical Society 11 (1976/77) pp. 1-18, but as Johann Schilling working for Caxton by Needham, Ars impressoria, pp. 117-20.
Printed in type 1:100G attributed to Johann Schilling.
GW dates as not after 1473.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6¹⁰]: 58 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.7 x 19.5 cm
Former board and fly leaves preserved in folder in box.
The printer is tentatively identified as Johann Veldener by S. Corsten, in Journal of the Printing Historical Society 11 (1976/77) pp. 1-18, but as Johann Schilling working for Caxton by Needham, Ars impressoria, pp. 117-20.
Printed in type 1:100G attributed to Johann Schilling.
GW dates as not after 1473.
Collation: [1-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6¹⁰]: 58 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.7 x 19.5 cm
Former board and fly leaves preserved in folder in box.
Binding
Brown blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards (27.3 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Deborah Evetts. Plain paper pastedowns and flyleaves; plain endbands; edges stained red.
Variant title
De vita et moribus philosophorum.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication largely unrealized: red lombards, underlining, and capital strokes stop in quire 2. Annotations: Marginal notes in several hands. 15th-century inscription beginning: Johannes Andrea docto[ris] subtilissi[us] in medica facultate... (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
Au am Inn (Gars am Inn, Bavaria), Augustinians (now a Franciscan nunnery), Blessed Virgin and St. Felicitas, inscription, 1637 (leaf [1]/2r); George Grant Francis (1814-1882), ex libris inscription (former fly leaf, preserved in box); Swansea Grammar School, donated by G.G. Francis, inscribed bookplate, 1854 (former fly leaf, now in box) and red ink stamp (througout); Sotheby's London, 3 December 1992, lot 87 (pulled and reoffered): Sotheby's New York, 14 June 1993, lot 11; Pierpont Morgan Library, booklabel (front pastedown), purchased from Sotheby's, 14 June 1993.
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