Accession number
PML 22406-407
Creator
Mombrizio, Bonino, 1424?-1482?
Object title
Sanctuarium sive Vitae Sanctorum.
Published
[Milan] : [Printer for Boninus Mombritius], [approximately 1477]
Description
[349, 365] leaves ; 39 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1924.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in type 1:112R.
A copy of vol. 2 in Univ. Cattolica in Milan was purchased on 14 Sept. 1478 (T. Foffano in Italia medioevale e umanistica, 22 (1979), 509-11).
Incipit, leaf a1r: Boninus Mo[m]britius Mediolanensis magnifico uiro splendidissimoq[ue] equiti aurato .d[omino]. Cicho Simonetae illustrissimoru[m] & excelle[n]tissimorum ducum Mediolani secretario.
In two parts.
Collation, part I: [1]⁴; a¹⁰ aa⁸ aaa⁸ aaaa⁸ va⁸ via⁸ viia⁸ viiia¹⁰; b⁸ bb⁸ bbb⁸ bbbb⁸ bbbbb⁸ bvi⁸ bvii⁸ bviii⁸ bviiii⁸ bx⁸; c⁸ cc⁸ ccc⁸ cccc⁸ ccccc⁸ vic⁸ viic⁸ viiic⁸ viiiic⁸; d⁸ dd⁸ ddd⁸ dddd⁸; e⁸ ee⁸ eee⁸ eeee²; F⁸ FF⁸ FFF⁶; f⁸ ff⁶; g⁸ gg⁸ ggg⁸ gggg⁸: 349 leaves, leaves [1]/4, viiiic1, and gggg8 blank (leaf viiiic2 signed viiiic1, etc.); part II: [2]²; h¹⁰ hh⁸; I⁸ II⁸ III⁸ IIII⁸; L⁸ LL¹⁰; m⁸ mm⁸ mmm⁸ 4m⁸ vm⁸ vim⁸ viim⁸ viiim⁸ viiiim⁸ xm⁸ xim¹⁰; n⁸ nn⁸ nnn⁸ nnnn⁸(3+1: "-ue[n]titis.") p⁸ pp⁸ ppp⁸ pppp⁸ vp⁸ vip⁸ r⁶ rr⁴; s⁸ ss⁸ sss⁸ ssss⁸ sv⁸ vis⁸ viis⁸ viiis⁸ T¹²; t⁸ tt⁶ ttt⁶ V⁸ VV¹⁰: 365 leaves, leaves h1 and ttt6 blank; leaf nnnn4 missigned as p1, leaves vip2-4 missigned as q1-3, leaf rr1 unsigned.
Paper fomat: Royal folio.
With dedicatory letter by Mombritius addressed to Sicchus Simonetta and the reader (leaf [1]/1r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38 x 28.2 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: gggg8, h1, nnnn3+1 (replaced in print facsimile), and ttt6.
Printed in type 1:112R.
A copy of vol. 2 in Univ. Cattolica in Milan was purchased on 14 Sept. 1478 (T. Foffano in Italia medioevale e umanistica, 22 (1979), 509-11).
Incipit, leaf a1r: Boninus Mo[m]britius Mediolanensis magnifico uiro splendidissimoq[ue] equiti aurato .d[omino]. Cicho Simonetae illustrissimoru[m] & excelle[n]tissimorum ducum Mediolani secretario.
In two parts.
Collation, part I: [1]⁴; a¹⁰ aa⁸ aaa⁸ aaaa⁸ va⁸ via⁸ viia⁸ viiia¹⁰; b⁸ bb⁸ bbb⁸ bbbb⁸ bbbbb⁸ bvi⁸ bvii⁸ bviii⁸ bviiii⁸ bx⁸; c⁸ cc⁸ ccc⁸ cccc⁸ ccccc⁸ vic⁸ viic⁸ viiic⁸ viiiic⁸; d⁸ dd⁸ ddd⁸ dddd⁸; e⁸ ee⁸ eee⁸ eeee²; F⁸ FF⁸ FFF⁶; f⁸ ff⁶; g⁸ gg⁸ ggg⁸ gggg⁸: 349 leaves, leaves [1]/4, viiiic1, and gggg8 blank (leaf viiiic2 signed viiiic1, etc.); part II: [2]²; h¹⁰ hh⁸; I⁸ II⁸ III⁸ IIII⁸; L⁸ LL¹⁰; m⁸ mm⁸ mmm⁸ 4m⁸ vm⁸ vim⁸ viim⁸ viiim⁸ viiiim⁸ xm⁸ xim¹⁰; n⁸ nn⁸ nnn⁸ nnnn⁸(3+1: "-ue[n]titis.") p⁸ pp⁸ ppp⁸ pppp⁸ vp⁸ vip⁸ r⁶ rr⁴; s⁸ ss⁸ sss⁸ ssss⁸ sv⁸ vis⁸ viis⁸ viiis⁸ T¹²; t⁸ tt⁶ ttt⁶ V⁸ VV¹⁰: 365 leaves, leaves h1 and ttt6 blank; leaf nnnn4 missigned as p1, leaves vip2-4 missigned as q1-3, leaf rr1 unsigned.
Paper fomat: Royal folio.
With dedicatory letter by Mombritius addressed to Sicchus Simonetta and the reader (leaf [1]/1r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38 x 28.2 cm.
PML copy missing 4 leaves: gggg8, h1, nnnn3+1 (replaced in print facsimile), and ttt6.
Binding
19th/early 20th-century English full blue goatskin over heavy paper boards (39 x 30 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Wallis. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Vitae Sanctorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary foliation; a few contemporary marginal notations in quires mm-4m. Previous manuscript title on bottom edge, under gilt edging.
Provenance
Lorenzo Surio/Laurenz Sauer (1523-1578), inscription: "Lorenzo Surio delle vite de santi" -- ownership or a reference? (vol. I, front endleaf 4 recto); unidentified signature: D. Clanviel(?) (vol. I, front endleaf 4 recto); Francisco P. Marellio, signatures (leaves [1]/1r and [2]/1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Wilfred Voynich, June 1924.
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