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Historia scolastica.

Accession number
PML 19613
Creator
Petrus, Comestor, active 12th century
Object title

Historia scolastica.

Published

[Cologne : Conrad Winters, de Homborch, not after 14 April 1477]

Description

[304] leaves ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1913.
Notes
Title from explict (leaf [32]/6r): Explicit historia scolastica.
Printed in Winters's type 1:99G.
Dated in CIBN (P-224) from one of the Paris BN copies, read and annotated 14 April 1477. BMC and Goff date before 20 Sept. 1479?, Polain(B) 3089 dates about 1475 (ISTC).
Collation: [1-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11⁴; 12-20¹⁰ 21⁸; 22-30¹⁰ 31⁸ 32⁶]: 304 leaves, leaf [11]/4 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.4 cm.
PML copy listed under Division B in Checklist.
Binding
Contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards (30 x 21 cm), sewn on 4 supports by an unidentified German(?) workshop (2 stamps, badly worn: an eagle and a sitting rabbit, not in EBDB); repaired by Duprez Lahey. No pastedowns, modern paper fly leaves. 2 clasps, wanting, rectangular catches (1 x 5 cm) on top board.
Variant title
Historia scholastica
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated only in quires [1-2], red lombards, capital strokes, paragraph marks, and underlining; contemporary manuscrip title at incipit (leaf [1]/1r). Annotations: No notations in text. Contemporary pen trials (leaf [11]/4).
Provenance
Johannes Meyener, signature (leaf [32]/6v, vertically at bottom along outer edge) [likely too late for the Provost of Bonn (ca. 1426) of same name]; Paris, Bibliothèque Impériale, ink stamp, ca. 1852-53 (leaves [1]/1r, [5]/10r, [11]/3r, [11]/4v, and [32]/6r) and duplicate stamp: Double échangé no. 199205 (leaf [1]/1r); English sale catalogue description, lot 67 (Martini, cat. XV?) glued in (inside rear board); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1913.
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Department