Accession number
PML 199124.1
Creator
Perger, Bernhard, -approximately 1502.
Object title
Gra[m]matica noua.
Published
Impressum Argentine : [Martin Schott], Anno d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxviij [1488].
Description
[84] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2024.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l5v.
Printed in Schott's types 2:80G and 3:180G.
Signatures: a-i⁸ k-l⁶: 84 leaves, leaf l6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
36 lines to a full page.
An adaptation of Niccolò Perotti's "Rudimenta grammatices."
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 15 cm.
Morgan copy missing 2 leaves: a8 and l6 (blank).
Imprint from colophon, leaf l5v.
Printed in Schott's types 2:80G and 3:180G.
Signatures: a-i⁸ k-l⁶: 84 leaves, leaf l6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
36 lines to a full page.
An adaptation of Niccolò Perotti's "Rudimenta grammatices."
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 15 cm.
Morgan copy missing 2 leaves: a8 and l6 (blank).
Binding
15th-century German quarter blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (21.5 x 16 cm), sewn on 3 supports by the St. Godehard bindery (EBDB w000212, active about 1460-1500). Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. 1 clasp, missing. Hole on rear board for chain hasp. The wooden boards show indentations from previous blind-tooling and were likely reused from an earlier binding.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: After title: "ex Nicolas Perotti collecta v[a]l[et] i[n] fi[d]eli[us](?)" (leaf A1r). Significant contemporary marginal notations throughout but primarily in first quire, with additional slips of paper with notations bound in (leaves a5-7).
Provenance
Hildesheim (Lower Saxony), St. Godehard, Benedictines, inscription: "liber monasterij s[an]c[t]i Godehardi p[ropr]e [et] extra mu" (Perger, leaf A1r) and binding; Ampleforth Abbey, bookplates (front pastedown and Verba deponentalia, leaf C8v) and stamp (front endleaf 1 recto); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Bernard Quaritch on the Lathrop C. Harper C-1 Fund, April 2024.
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