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Passio Petri et Pauli apostolorum ac disputatio eorundem contra Symonem quenda[m] magnum coram Nerone imp[er]atore qui cu[m] viderit se non posse resistere dictis sancti Petri omnes suos libros in arte magica (ne magus iudicaret[ur]) in mari p[ro]iecte, deinde a sancto Petro (cu[m] idem Symon magus celu[m] ascendere p[re]sumpserit) devictus in terram corruit ac miserrime periit.

Accession number
PML 27828
Creator
Marcellus.
Object title

Passio Petri et Pauli apostolorum ac disputatio eorundem contra Symonem quenda[m] magnum coram Nerone imp[er]atore qui cu[m] viderit se non posse resistere dictis sancti Petri omnes suos libros in arte magica (ne magus iudicaret[ur]) in mari p[ro]iecte, deinde a sancto Petro (cu[m] idem Symon magus celu[m] ascendere p[re]sumpserit) devictus in terram corruit ac miserrime periit.

Published

[Cologne] : [Cornelis de Zierikzee], [about 1499]

Description

[10] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zierikzee's types 2:81G, 3:105G, and 6:150G.
Signatures: a⁴ b⁶: 10 leaves, leaf b6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 14 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: b6 (blank). NPM
Binding
20th-century blue paper over heavy paper boards (21 x 16 cm), sewn on 2 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations throughout text, in a German/central European hand.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., Sept. 1930.
Classification
Century
Department