Accession number
PML 20952
Creator
Alphonso, de Espina, active 15th century.
Object title
Tabula fortalicii fidei.
Published
[Lyon] : [Guillaume Balsarin], Anno incarnat[i]o[n]is d[omi]nice .M.cccclxxxvii. die .xxii. mensis maii [22 May 1487].
Description
[250] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 27.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1920.
Notes
Title from tabula incipit, leaf a2r.
Colophon (leaf L8v): Anno incarnat[i]o[n]is d[omi]nice .M.cccclxxxvii. die .xxii. mensis maii. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Balsarin's types 1:77G and 2:110G.
Signatures: a⁸; ²a⁸ b-r⁸s-v⁶; A-L⁸: 250 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 woodcut, leaf ²a2r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.1 x 19.5 cm, trimmed.
Colophon (leaf L8v): Anno incarnat[i]o[n]is d[omi]nice .M.cccclxxxvii. die .xxii. mensis maii. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Balsarin's types 1:77G and 2:110G.
Signatures: a⁸; ²a⁸ b-r⁸s-v⁶; A-L⁸: 250 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 woodcut, leaf ²a2r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.1 x 19.5 cm, trimmed.
Binding
French(?), 18th-century(?) paper over boards (27.5 x 20 cm), sewn on 5 supports, with gilt-tooled spine; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; red edges.
Variant title
Fortalitium fidei
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, alternating red and blue initials, red and blue paragraph marks, and yellow capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations and commentary throughout, many trimmed with paper.
Provenance
François (Abbé) Le Blastier (d. 1884), bibliographic inscription (leaf L8v), his books sold Paris, 7 July 1884; George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [gamma lambda], purchased April 1901 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 1172, bought by: Bernard Quaritch, collation note, 4 Dec. 1917 (rear pastedown); J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Quaritch, 1920.
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