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Tractatus Anszhelmi de planctu Marie.

Accession number
PML 128540.3
Creator
Anselm, Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1033-1109.
Object title

Tractatus Anszhelmi de planctu Marie.

Published

[Passau] : [Johann Petri], [about 1485-1486].

Description

[8] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf [1]/1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Petri's types 1:92G and 2:150G.
Collation: [1]⁸: 8 leaves; leaf [1]/3 signed b (for 2nd/inner sheet of paper).
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Bearer type visible at top and bottom of leaf [1]/1.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Variant title
De planctu Marie
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initial, capital strokes, and underlining (different style than previous parts). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Multiple annotations on half-title page, including: "Ubi amor ibi oculus, ubi oculus ibi intentio et ubi intendis ibi ingenium valet Iohannis [??] cancellarius Parisiensis," "Instantes orationi & vigilantes in ea," "Ecclesiastes. Qui timet deum nit negligit," "Bonum certamen certavi cursum consumavi et fidem servavi...," and several inscriptions on obedience (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
Unidentified shelfmarks: H.2.83 and I.A.23 (front pastedown); abraded inscription (leaf a1r of Speculum anime); Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (cited in Goff Supplement); Walter Goldwater (1907-1985), his sale, Swann Galleries, part II, 5 Dec. 1985, lot 121 for $84,000; Helmut N. Friedlaender (1913-2008), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, part I, 23 April 2001, lot 119, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased (via HP Kraus) on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
Classification
Century
Department