Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Secundus dyalogorum liber beati Gregorij pape de vita ac miraculis beatissimi Benedicti. Eiusdem almi patris nostri Benedicti regula. Speculum Bernardi abbatis casinensis de his ad que in professione obligatur monachus.

Accession number
PML 23619
Creator
Gregory I, Pope, approximately 540-604.
Published
Venetijs : Impressum ... per nobilem virum Lućantonium de giunta florentinum ..., tertio idus Martii [13 March 1505]
Credit line
Purchased in 1926.
Notes
Title from title page (leaf A1r), printed in red. Lucantonio II's printer's mark on title page.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: A⁸ a-z⁸ [et]⁸.
T.p. in red; preface and "Tabula" in red and black.
Final page blank.
Numerous errors in foliation.
Woodcuts: printer's device, ill., ports., head-pieces, initials.
PML copy differs from that cited in Essling I, 1, no. 529 in several respects.
Description
[8], 191, [1] leaves : ill., ports. ; 11 cm (16mo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Title inscriptions on fore and top edges.
Provenance
16th/17th-century ownership inscriptions: "De [conventus?] Joseph de Zaragoza" (crossed out) and "Conventus Eremi[ti] S Joseph del Monte" (title page); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt, May 1926.
Binding
16th-century (Flemish or Spanish?) panel-stamped dark leather over thin wooden boards; repaired by Duprez Lahey, 1926.
Classification
Department