Accession number
PML 17679
Object title
Biblia latina. With additions by Menardus Monachus.
Uniform title
Bible. Latin. 1480.
Published
[Ulm] : per Iohannem Zainer Vlmensis opidi incolam, Millesimoquadringentesimooctauagesimo. quarto kalendas februarij [29 January 1480].
Description
[441] leaves ; 42 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [50]/2v: Anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringentesimooctauagesimo. quarto kalendas februarij. In o[mn]ipotentis dei laudem sueq[ue] curie celestis gloria[m] et honorem. Finitu[m] est hoc insigne noui at veteris testamento[rum] opus. per Iohanne[m] Zainer Vlmensis opidi incolam. Opus inq[uam] p[re]cla[rum] ad simplicium sacerdotu[m] vtilitatem. non modo cu[m] canonibus euangelistarumq[ue] concordantijs. ve[rum] insup[er] cu[m] dictionu[m] hebraita[rum] delcaratio. ac calsibus su[m]marijs semper ab initio capitulo[rum] politis diligentissime impressum.
Printed in Zainer's types 4:96G and 5:136G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-10⁸ 11¹⁰ 12-33⁸ 34⁸(+1) 35-37⁸ 38¹² 39-54⁸]: 441 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [50]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.5 x 26.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [50]/2v: Anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringentesimooctauagesimo. quarto kalendas februarij. In o[mn]ipotentis dei laudem sueq[ue] curie celestis gloria[m] et honorem. Finitu[m] est hoc insigne noui at veteris testamento[rum] opus. per Iohanne[m] Zainer Vlmensis opidi incolam. Opus inq[uam] p[re]cla[rum] ad simplicium sacerdotu[m] vtilitatem. non modo cu[m] canonibus euangelistarumq[ue] concordantijs. ve[rum] insup[er] cu[m] dictionu[m] hebraita[rum] delcaratio. ac calsibus su[m]marijs semper ab initio capitulo[rum] politis diligentissime impressum.
Printed in Zainer's types 4:96G and 5:136G.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-10⁸ 11¹⁰ 12-33⁸ 34⁸(+1) 35-37⁸ 38¹² 39-54⁸]: 441 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [50]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39.5 x 26.5 cm.
Binding
Late 16th/17th-century German (Schäftlarn) blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (42 x 29.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Modern paper pastedowns; red edges. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red paragraph marks, L-brackets, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Leonhard Schmid (d. 1527) of Schäftlarn Abbey (Bavaria), Premonstratensians, inscriptions: "Iste presens liber e[st] s[an]cto[rum] m[a]r[tyru]m Dyonisij ariopagite et Iuliane virginis patrono[rum] Monasterij Schefftlärn quem [con]p[er]auit frat[r]e[m] Leonardus Schmid et tu[n]c t[em]p[or]is pl[e]banus in Schering Anno do[mini]. 1489. Orate pro eo." (leaf [1]/4r and "Bibliothecae Schefftlariensis," 18th century (leaf [1]/2r); Georg Schragl, illegible inscription, probably also at Schäftlarn, 1559 (leaf [54]/8v); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from J. Pearson & Co., June 1911.
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