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Postilla.

Accession number
PML 613
Creator
Guillermus, Parisiensis.
Object title

Postilla.

Published

Impressa Lugduni : per Johannes Trechsel, Anno domini .M.cccc.xciii. die vero .xiii. Julii [14 July 1494]

Description

[132] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 25 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf r5v: Postilla Epistolarum [et] Evangeliorum d[omi]ni calium necno[n] de sanctis Impressa Lugduni p[er] Johannem Trechsel. Anno domini .M.cccc.xciii. die vero .xiii. Julii. Finit feliciter. [Trechsel's device]
Printed in Trechsel's types 2:150G, 3:96G, and 4:68G.
Signatures: a-p⁸ q-r⁶: 132 leaves, leaf r6 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto.
55 woodcuts, with repetitions.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.2 x 17.5 cm.
Binding
Contemporary (French?) laced limp vellum (25 x 19 cm), sewn on 3 supports; repaired. Plain paper endleaves; plain endbands. 15th-century manuscript spine reinforcements. 2 ties, partly missing.
Variant title
Postilla super epistolas et evangelia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (inside front cover); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased Morris's library in August 1896, armorial bookplate (inside rear cover) and price code: wm/-/- +___ (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
Century
Department