Tractatus decem.

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Accession number:

PML 76432

Author:

Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.

Published:

[Leipzig] : Martin Landsberg, [between 1492 and 1496]

Description:

[192] leaves ; 11 cm (16mo)

Credit Line:

Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1980.

Notes:

Title and imprint from ISTC.
Landsberg's printers' mark on part VI (De fallaciis), leaf F7v.
Dated between 1492 and 1496 in CIBN, after 1492 by Goff.
Printed in Landsberg's types 3:69G and 4:140G.
Signatures, in 10 parts: I: A⁸: 8 leaves, leaf A8 blank; II: A-B⁸: 16 leaves; III: A-D⁸: 32 leaves; IV:A-C⁸: 24 leaves, leaf C8 blank; V: A-D⁸: 32 leaves; VI: A-F⁸: 40 leaves, leaf F8 blank; VII: A⁸: 8 leaves; VIII: A⁸: 8 leaves, leaf A8 blank; IX: A⁸: 8 leaves; X: A⁸: 8 leaves, leaf A8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery 16mo.
1 column, 19 lines. Initial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 10.5 x 7.6 cm.
PML copy missing 8 leaves: part I (De natura verbi intellectus), leaves A1-8.

Binding:

Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (11 x 8 cm.), sewn on 2 supports by the Regensburg Blüte dreiteilg frei workshop (EBDB w000009/Kyriss 138, active ca. 1477-1518). Plain paper pastedowns and 14th/early-15th century unidentified manuscript as fly leaves. 1 clasp, missing.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript title: "De modalisbus et universalibus gustabitur afinus" (front fly leaf recto and rear fly leaf verso). 17th/18th-century manuscript contents, without part I (front pastedown).

Provenance:

William Sandys W. Vaux (1818-1885), inscription: "W.S.W. Vaux, Brit. Mus. 1844" (front pastedown); Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library, trimmed monogram bookplate (front pastedown) and monogram stamp and library bookplate (rear pastedown); Broxbourne sale, part I, Sotheby's, 14 Nov. 1977, lot 223 to Antiquariaat Meijer-Elte NV for £100; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman from Lathrop C. Harper, June 1980.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Blind tooled bindings (Binding)

Pigskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books