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De pollutione nocturna.

Accession number
PML 31841
Creator
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Object title

De pollutione nocturna.

Published

[Cologne] : [Ulrich Zel], [about 1466]

Description

[16] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased in 1935.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Zel's type 1:96G.
PML copy listed under Division A. $1 in Checklist.
Collation: [1-2⁸]: 16 leaves, leaf [2]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 14.1 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [2]/8 (blank).
Binding
19th-century German half calf, with marbled paper sides, over paper boards (21 x 15 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Checklist title: De pollutionibus nocturnis
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporyar alpha-numeric quire signatures (beginning with b) and title: "Dyalogus de disceptatione conscientie et rationis de frequenter vel raro celebrando. Magistri Johannes Gerson cancellarii Parisiensis" (leaf [1]/1r).
Provenance
École Sainte Geneviève, B.D.J., stamp (front endleaf 1 recto); unidentified shelfmark: J: 5. and another: L[???] covered by Morgan booklabel (front pastedown); Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front pastedown and front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, [lot 901 or 1699?]; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Inc., July 1935.
Classification
Century
Department