Postilla super totam Bibliam (cum expositionibus Guillelmi Britonis et additionibus Pauli Burgensis et correctoriis editis a Matthia Doering).

Accession number:

PML 78475

Author:

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349.

Published:

[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [not after 1472]

Description:

[359, 298, 279, 350] leaves ; 42 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased as the gift of Alice Tully in memory of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Mentelin's types 3:92G and 5:92G.
A copy in Freiburg UB has a rubricator's date, and a copy in Eichstätt a buyer's date, of 1472. Copies are also known with the printed date 1472 (see Polain(B) 2820).
Collation, part I: [1-6¹⁰ 7¹² 8-12¹⁰; 13-15¹⁰ 16⁸ (2+1: c°. Ad hoc) 17⁸; 18-20¹⁰ 21-22⁶ 23-27¹⁰ 28¹²; 29-37¹⁰ 38⁶]: 359 leaves; part II: [39-42¹⁰ 43⁸; 44-45¹⁰ 46-49⁸ 50-53¹⁰ 54⁶ 55-57¹⁰ 58⁸ 59⁶; 60-61¹⁰ 62-65⁸ 66-67¹⁰ 68-69⁸ 70⁶]: 298 leaves, leaf [59]/6 blank; part III: [71-72¹⁰ 73⁸ 74-75¹⁰ 76-78⁸ 79⁶; 80-81¹⁰ 82⁸ 83-86¹⁰ 87¹² 88⁸ 89¹⁰; 90-91¹⁰ 92-94⁸ 95⁶(5+1: aquilonis); 96-97¹⁰ 98-101⁸]: 279 leaves, leaf [101]/8 blank; part IV: [102-107¹⁰ 108¹² 109-114¹⁰ 115-117⁸; 118-123¹⁰ 124⁸ 125⁶ 126-127¹⁰ 128¹⁰ (10+1: Circa primum) 129¹²; 130-134¹⁰ 135¹²(2+1:) 136-137¹⁰ 138⁴]: 350 leaves, leaves [138]/3-4 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
With Guillelmus Brito's commentary, Expositiones; Paulus de Sancta Maria, Additiones; and Matthias Doering, Replicationes.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.2 x 27.1 cm.
PML copy is part III (quires [71-101]) only.

Binding:

17th-century German blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (42 x 29 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; red edges. 2 clasps, missing.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary foliation. Manuscript title page, 17th century.

Provenance:

Sigurd and Gudrun Wandel, bookplate (front pastedown) and signature (front endleaf 1 recto); Graf Konrad Reuttner von Weyl, his sale, Bloomsbury Book Auctions, 31 Oct. 1985, lot 110; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Alice Tully in memory of Curt F. Bühler, Oct. 1985.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books