Accession number
PML 128540.4
Creator
Conrad von Zabern, 15th century.
Object title
Colletura de vero irreprehensibili et artifitiali mo[do] co[n]cludendi omne[m] collectam, tam in offitio misse, quam in quibuscumq[ue] horis canonicis.
Published
[Speyer] : [Conrad Hist], [about 1495].
Description
[6] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Hist's types 3:80G, 6:150G, and 7:93G.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Hist's types 3:80G, 6:150G, and 7:93G.
Signatures: a⁶: 6 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
15th/early 16th-century Salzburg blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (21,5 x 15 cm), sewn on 2 supports by the bindery at the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, Salzburg (EBDB w002790, aka Salzburg St Peter IV, active second-half of the 15th century-1564). 1 clasp. Manuscript title label on top board, with second label, perhaps former shelfmark, missing. Manuscript waste of early liturgical book with heighted neumes as binding reinforcement and quire guards.
Variant title
De modo concludendi omnem collectam
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initial, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining (different style from previous parts). Annotations: No marginal notations in text; 3 crosses/note bene marks.
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.
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