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Bartholomeus de Camerino familiaris S[an]c[t]issimi d[omi]ni n[ost]ri Sixti pape q[ua]rti...indulge[n]ciar[um] s[an]c[t]e cruciate.

Accession number
PML 78359
Creator
Camerino, Bartholomaeus de, commissary.
Object title

Bartholomeus de Camerino familiaris S[an]c[t]issimi d[omi]ni n[ost]ri Sixti pape q[ua]rti...indulge[n]ciar[um] s[an]c[t]e cruciate.

Published

[Stockholm] : [Johann Snel], [between 22 August 1484 and 7 January 1485]

Description

[1] leaf ; 20 cm (broadside)

Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund, 1985.
Notes
GW, Einblattdrucke des XV. Jahrhunderts, 406 and Collijn, "Lübecker Frühdrucke in der Stadtbibliothek zu Lübeck," Zeitschrift des Vereins für Lübeckische Geschichte und Altertumskunde 9 (1908): 288-333 and Tafel 1-26, esp. 306-308, Taf. 12, attribute printing to Lübeck.
In 1907 Isak Collijn discovered 14 copies of the indulgence used as binder's waste in the Lübeck Stadtbibliothek copy of Rusch's Bible (Goff B-607) and the leaves were dispersed to various institutions (see notes in PML item folder and Catalogue of books printed in the 15th century in Swedish collections, 1006).
Paper format: Chancery half-sheet (ISTC records as Broadside quarto). Watermark of a crowned armorial with three fleurs de lis surmounted by a flower on a stem (Briquet 1743).
PML copy has three holes, two in Forma absolutionis affecting text. Removed from a binding, evidence of glue and staining on recto--one of the copies Collijn found in Lübeck in 1907.
PML copy is not filled out.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 29 cm
Printed in Snel's types 2:150G and 4:94G. On his first press in Lübeck, see BMC II 552-53; he moved to Stockholm by 1483.
The printed date reads: 'M.cccc.lxxx', before a space for closer dating. To this is added in the Stockholm RA copy the manuscript date 7 Jan. [148]5; Collijn dates after 22 Aug. 1484, the date of a manuscript copy of the text in Linköping (Nordisk Boktryckarekonst p.50).
Binding
Modern marbled paper folder (23.7 x 31.5 cm) with gilt-stamped leather label on top board, by Gustav Hedberg, Hofbokbindare, Stockholm.
Variant title
Indulgentia.
Provenance
Lübeck, Stadtbibliothek, stamp (verso); Thore Virgin (1886-1957), 1915, signature (verso), Bibliotheca Qvarnsforsiana, Ett urval av 1400- och 1500-Talstryck samt Konstnärliga Bokband (Uppsala, 1946), 47; [his sales, 10 May 1975 and 14 May 1977]; Martin Breslauer, Cat. 103, 1977, no. 12; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Laurence Witten, 1985.
Classification
Century
Department