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Summa de casibus conscientiae (MS M.528).

Accession number
MS M.528
Object title
Summa de casibus conscientiae (MS M.528).
Created
Erfurt, Germany, ca. 1460.
Binding
Original wooden boards and stamped calf; signed by Johannes Fogel in four scrolls on each cover; remains of two pairs of clasps of fore-edge; catching on upper cover, stained red; rebacked.
Description
243 leaves (2 columns, 34-46 lines), bound : paper, ill. ; 300 x 210 mm
Provenance
Reverend E. Dewick (Burlington Fine Arts Club exhibition, 1891, p. 16; plate 11); his sale (London, Sotheby's, Oct. 7, 1918, lot 85) to Maggs; E.P. Goldschmidt (Florence exhibition, 1922, p. 42; no. 1096); purchased for the Pierpont Morgan Library from Rosenbach in 1929.
Notes
Ms. theological treatise; written and illustrated in Erfurt, Germany, ca. 1460.
Decoration: 1 red ink drawing on fol. 74.
Script
various highly-contracted cursive scripts
Language
Latin
Century
Classification