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De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus.

Accession number
PML 22590
Creator
Henricus Ariminensis.
Object title

De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus.

Published

Strasbourg : [Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?), about 1473-1474].

Description

[148] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased in 1925.
Notes
Collation: [1¹⁰; 2-13⁸; 14-17⁸ 18¹⁰]: 148 leaves, leaf [18]/10 blank.
Edited by Thomas Dorniberg with a table dated 11 Nov. 1472 (leaves [1]/1-10).
Munich BSB copy (2 Inc.s.a. 93) has a rubricator's date of 17 Sept. 1475.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy has some staining from top and bottom edges, heavy in quires [12]-[13].
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.6 x 21.7 cm
PML copy with a duplicate leaf [4]1.8 bound in.
Printed in type 1:120G ascribed to Georg Reyser by Ohly (Gutenberg-Jahrbuch, 1956), and tentatively to Heinrich Eggestein by Needham (Christie's, Doheny, I: 19).
Reprint of Speyer edition of 'not after 1473', ISTC ih00018900, which Goff H-20 treated as the later edition (see Needham, Sotheby's, Schøyen 26).
Binding
Contemporary German tan calfskin over wooden boards (31 x 22 cm) with fillet frame and cross-panel on three bands; repaired by Duprez Lahey. 2 clasps, wanting. Plain paper pastedowns; leather endbands. Modern leather spine label.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript signatures, mostly trimmed. Some contemporary marginal annotations. Former Trier library shelfmarks and inscriptions (fly leaf recto). Red leather tabs.
Provenance
Trier, St. Mary ad martyres (Benedictines), "Codex mo[na]sterij b[ea]te Marie ad m[arty]res ex[tra] mu[r]os Treve[rense]s sup[er] lit[us] moselle" (fly leaf recto and leaf [1]/10v) and shelf mark "E4" with title inscription (fly leaf recto), monastery dissolved in 1802 and the collection transferred to the Stadtbibliothek; Trier, Stadtbibliothek, 1802, inscription (fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, March 1925.
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Department