Accession number
PML 22815
Creator
Pietro, da Bergamo, -1482.
Object title
Religiosissimi uiri Fr[at]ris Petri de Bergomo, o[r]dinis p[re]dicator[um] sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris eximii sup[er] om[n]ia op[er]a diuini doctoris Thome Aquinatis tabula felicit[er] i[n]cipit.
Published
Bononie : Ex officina Baldaseris Azoguidi, ciuis Bononiensis, anno D[omi]ni 1473, die u[n]decimo martii.
Description
[269] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [28]/6v.
Printed in Azoguidus's type 2:99R.
Signatures: [1-12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14⁴ 15-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22¹²(12+1*: Rep[re]sentat[i]o i[n] spec[u]lo) 23-26¹⁰ 27⁸ 28⁶; 29²]: 270 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [29]/2 blank. In some copies, the final quire collates as [28⁶(6+1*)], 268 leaves total.
Paper format: Chancery folio
One column, 43-44 lines. Capital spaces.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 21.3 cm.
PML copy with conjugate blank of leaf [22]/12+1* bound before [22]/1.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [28]/6v.
Printed in Azoguidus's type 2:99R.
Signatures: [1-12¹⁰ 13⁸ 14⁴ 15-20¹⁰ 21⁸ 22¹²(12+1*: Rep[re]sentat[i]o i[n] spec[u]lo) 23-26¹⁰ 27⁸ 28⁶; 29²]: 270 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [29]/2 blank. In some copies, the final quire collates as [28⁶(6+1*)], 268 leaves total.
Paper format: Chancery folio
One column, 43-44 lines. Capital spaces.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 21.3 cm.
PML copy with conjugate blank of leaf [22]/12+1* bound before [22]/1.
Binding
Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over partially-bevelled wooden boards (30 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by the Konrad Dinckmut bindery in Ulm (EBDB w000070/Kyriss 126, active ca. 1470-1506). Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands. 5 cardinal's hat bosses on each board. 2 post catches on top board, clasps missing.
Variant title
Religiosissimi viri Fratris Petri de Bergomo, ordinis predicatorum sacre theologie professoris eximii super omnia opera divini doctoris Thome Aquinatis tabula feliciter incipit
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: German rubricated, red initials, capital strokes, headlines, and marginal keywords. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notes throughout. Numeric and alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures.
Provenance
Unidentified German (monastic?) library title label (top board) and shelf marks: G (or 6, label on top board), R.V. N.26 (spine), F 8 (front pastedown, Kloss?) and C 128 (front fly leaf, similar to Inglis inscriptions); Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front fly leaf recto); Kloss sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 673; Bernard Quaritch, collation statement by H. Gosden, 31 July 1871 (front fly leaf); William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front fly leaf); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 2406, to Quaritch for £3.11.0; Bernard Quaritch, Rough List no. 115 (June 1891), no. 523 for £5.5.0; Frederick Parker Morrell (1839-1908, Frederic Morrell), of Broughton Grange, Oxford, armorial bookplate, 1886 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from James Tregaskis, August 1925.
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