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De planctu ecclesiae.

Accession number
PML 79698
Creator
Pelagius, Alvarus, 1280?-1353.
Object title

De planctu ecclesiae.

Published

Vlm : Per honorabilem virum Johannem Zeiner de Rütlingen, Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimoquarto. die vero .xxvj. octobris [26 October 1474].

Description

[407] leaves ; 47 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Joseph R. Ritman, 1987.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [42]/8v: Summa notabilissima, valde omnibus spiritualibus ac secularib[us] p[ro]ficua, de sancte ecc[les]ie katholice planctu intitulata ... Per honorabile[m] viru[m] ioha[n]ne[m] zeiner de Rütlingen p[ro]creatum vrbe Vlm [comem]mora[n]tem. cu[m] summa dilige[n]tia correcta atq[ue] arte[m] imp[re]ssoria effigiata. Cum indiuidue trinitatis adiutorio finita. [et] feliciter consummata. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoq[ua]dringe[n]tesimoseptuagesimoquarto. die vero .xxvj. octobris. Cui debetur laus. gloria. honor. virtus. [et] fortitudo. p[er] infinita secula seculo[rum]. Amen.
Printed in Zainer's types 1:116G and 2:110R.
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10¹²; 11-12¹⁰ 13⁴; 14⁶ 15-28¹⁰ 29⁸ 30¹⁰ 31⁸ 32⁸(6+1: "tribulac[i]onib[us]") 33-38¹⁰ 39-42⁸; 43⁸]: 407 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Imperial folio.
Woodcut initials and borders.
With the Tabula of Petrus Dominici.
Dedicated to Pope John XXII.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 45.1 x 31 cm.
Binding
18th-century Austrian (Salzburg) blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (47 x 34 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with the gilt armorial of Abbot Beda Seeauer (1716-1785, abbot from 1753), dated 1753. Plain paper pastedowns; decorative endbands; red edges. 2 clasps.
Variant title
Title from colophon: De sancte ecclesie katholice planctu
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining. Woodcut initials and borders hand colored. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Salzburg (Austria), Benedictines of St. Peter, inscriptions: "Ex bibliotheca venerabilis conventus M[o]n[aste]rij S. Petri Salisburgi 1635" (leaf [1]/1v) and "Convent[us] S. Petri Salisburgi" (leaf [1]/2r), printed shelfmark label, dated 1767: I. A. 9. (front pastedown), and armorial binding; Sotheby's London, 10 May 1937, lot 290 for £26 to Maggs Bros. for: Estelle Doheny (1875-1958), booklabel (front pastedown), her sale, Christie's NY, 22 Oct. 1987, lot 68, to Laurence Witten, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Joseph R. Ritman, 1987.
Classification
Century
Department