Accession number
PML 252
Creator
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
Object title
Meditationes.
Published
Rome : Ulrich Han (Udalricus Gallus), 9 December 1478.
Description
[31] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 27 x 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1v): Meditationes Reverendissimi patris domini Johannis de Turrecremata Sacrosancte Romane ecclesie Cardinalis posite [et] depicte de ipsius ma[n]dato in eccl[es]ie ambitu sancte Marie de Minerva Rome.
Colophon (leaf [3]/10v): Finite sunt contemplationes. Reverendissimi patris domini Joha[n]nis de Turrecremata. sacrosancte Romane eccl[es]ie cardinalis. posite et depicte de ipsius ma[n]dato. in eccl[es]ie a[m]bitu sancte marie de Minerva Rome. No[n] attrame[n]to. plumali. calamo. neq[ue] stilo ereo. sed artificiosa quanda[m] adinve[n]tione imprime[n]di seu caracteriza[n]di sic effigiatu[m]. ad dei laude[m] industrieq[ue] est co[n]su[m]matu[m]. per Uldaricu[m] gallum alemanu[m]. et Simone[m] de luca Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxiii. die vero .xvii. Octobris. Regnante Sixto Quarto pontifice maximo.
Printed in type 5:125G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹⁰(+5*: Sanctus Dominicus woodcut on verso)]: 31 leaves, leaf [3]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
33 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.6 x 20.3 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [3]/5* (with woodcut).
Colophon (leaf [3]/10v): Finite sunt contemplationes. Reverendissimi patris domini Joha[n]nis de Turrecremata. sacrosancte Romane eccl[es]ie cardinalis. posite et depicte de ipsius ma[n]dato. in eccl[es]ie a[m]bitu sancte marie de Minerva Rome. No[n] attrame[n]to. plumali. calamo. neq[ue] stilo ereo. sed artificiosa quanda[m] adinve[n]tione imprime[n]di seu caracteriza[n]di sic effigiatu[m]. ad dei laude[m] industrieq[ue] est co[n]su[m]matu[m]. per Uldaricu[m] gallum alemanu[m]. et Simone[m] de luca Anno domini .M.cccc.lxxiii. die vero .xvii. Octobris. Regnante Sixto Quarto pontifice maximo.
Printed in type 5:125G.
Collation: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹⁰(+5*: Sanctus Dominicus woodcut on verso)]: 31 leaves, leaf [3]/10 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
33 woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.6 x 20.3 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [3]/5* (with woodcut).
Binding
Modern quarter black goatskin with decorative paper sides over paper boards (27 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant title
Contemplationes devotissimae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized; woodcuts uncolored. Annotations: No notations in text. Contemporary manuscript title, mostly trimmed (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
John Somerset Pakington, Baron Hampton (1799-1880), bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); his sale, Sotheby's, 14 Feb. 1881; William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 3181, to Quaritch for £76; Bernard Quaritch, cat. no. 115 (June 1891), no. 701 for £150.0.0; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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