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De simonia.

Accession number
PML 18322
Creator
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Object title

De simonia.

Published

[Nuremberg] : [Johann Sensenschmidt and Andreas Frisner], [not after 1473]

Description

[8] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): INcipit Tractat[us] de simonia Magistri Joannis Gerson Cancellarii Parisiensis.
Explicit (leaf [1]/8v): Deo gratias Amen.
Printed in Sensenschmidt's type 3:110G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
The copy at Rostock UB has a purchaser's date of 1473 (GW).
Checklist has pub. date: "[1475]."
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 20.8 cm
Binding
Modern half brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (29 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Sherman.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubriated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Manuscript title on leaf [1]/1r. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations of subjects/themes.
Provenance
Unidentified library duplicate inscription: Dupl. fo. 14713 (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, June 1908.
Classification
Century
Department