Accession number
PML 79669
Object title
Biblia latina.
Uniform title
Bible. Latin. 1476.
Published
Parisij : Ulricus, Martinus itemq[ue] Michael, orti teutonia, hanc mihi composurere figuram, [between 22 July 1476 and 21 July 1477]
Description
[512] leaves ; 38.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1987.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [48]/10r: Iam tribus vndecimus lustris francos Ludouicus. / Rexerat! vlricus martinus itemq[ue] michael. / Orti teutonia, hanc mihi composuere figura[m]. / Parisij arte sua, me correcta[m] vigilanter. / Uenalem in vico iacobi sol aureus offert.
Printed in Gering, Crantz, and Friburger's types 2:91G and 3:115G.
Collation: [1-22¹⁰ 23-24¹²; 25-48¹⁰]; A-B¹⁰ C⁸: 512 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [25]/1, and C8 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
Incipit captions printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36.7 x 26 cm.
PML copy with Interpretation of Hebrew Names (quires A-C) bound at end of Psalms (after quire [24]).
PML copy missing 16 leaves: [1]/1 (blank), [1]/10, [3]/10, [23]/1, [24]/6-7, [25]/1, [43]/8, [44]/6, [46]/5-6, [47]/6, and [48]/1 and 8-10 (most text leaves replaced in facsimile).
Imprint from colophon, leaf [48]/10r: Iam tribus vndecimus lustris francos Ludouicus. / Rexerat! vlricus martinus itemq[ue] michael. / Orti teutonia, hanc mihi composuere figura[m]. / Parisij arte sua, me correcta[m] vigilanter. / Uenalem in vico iacobi sol aureus offert.
Printed in Gering, Crantz, and Friburger's types 2:91G and 3:115G.
Collation: [1-22¹⁰ 23-24¹²; 25-48¹⁰]; A-B¹⁰ C⁸: 512 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [25]/1, and C8 blank.
Paper format: Super-median folio.
Incipit captions printed in red.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 36.7 x 26 cm.
PML copy with Interpretation of Hebrew Names (quires A-C) bound at end of Psalms (after quire [24]).
PML copy missing 16 leaves: [1]/1 (blank), [1]/10, [3]/10, [23]/1, [24]/6-7, [25]/1, [43]/8, [44]/6, [46]/5-6, [47]/6, and [48]/1 and 8-10 (most text leaves replaced in facsimile).
Binding
18th/19th-century English blind-tooled calf over wooden boards (38.5 x 28 cm), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain, stuck-on endband.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration, in two different styles, part I: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, red headlines; part II: French illuminated initials (leaf [25]/2r), alternating red and blue initials, paragraph marks, and headlines, and marginal ruling (some leaves near end with only red decoration completed, blue unrealized). Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text; Roman numerals added in Psalms.
Provenance
Unidentified 15th/16th-century English owner inscriptions: "Syr John Buckynhm p[er]sone of [abraded] owthe thys 1 booke" (leaf [7]/5r), "p[er] me Willelm[us] hyppghm (Hyppingham?) sive Gillelm[us]" (leaf [22]/10v), "Wylton carnic[??] [???] blaykney" (leaf 26/5r); Thomas Calthorpe-Blofeld, of Hoveton House, Norfolk, armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1987.
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