Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

De civitate dei.

Accession number
PML 15122
Creator
Augustine, Saint, Bishop of Hippo.
Object title

De civitate dei.

Published

[Strasbourg] : [Johann Mentelin], [not after 1468]

Description

[336] leaves ; 37 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1907.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Mentelin's types 2b:112G and 3:92G.
The Lindau, Manchester and Osaka copies have rubricator's dates "1468".
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6⁸; 7¹⁰; 8-12¹⁰; 13-14¹⁰; 15-17¹⁰ 18⁸; 19-20¹⁰; 21-24¹⁰ 25-26⁸; 27-30¹⁰; 31-33¹⁰ 34⁸ 35⁶]: 336 leaves, leaf [35]/6 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 35.7 x 28 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [35]/6 (blank).
Binding
Full English gilt-tooled navy blue crushed morocco over paper boards (37 x 30 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Riviere & Son. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication in three different hands/stints, 1) quires [1-14]: alternating red and light blue initials and headlines, red rubrics, marginal chapter numbers (with manuscript guides), boxes around inset text, and capital strokes; 2) quires [15-26]: similar to previous but without blue and inset text boxed and underlined; 3) quires [27-35] (Commentary): red rubrication, initials, headlines (textura hand), paragraph marks, underlining, and capital strokes. Annotations: No significant marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Landshut (Bavaria), Franciscans, inscription: "Ad mi[n[ores i[n] landczhut. a.," 15th century (leaf [35]/5v); Joseph Schaerl, inscription: "Jos. Schaerl Paroch. in Kirchbuch 1810" (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from J. Pearson & Co., May 1907.
Classification
Century
Department