Accession number
PML 127294
Creator
Nicolas, de Gorran, 1232-approximately 1295.
Object title
Postilla multu[m] sole[m]nis sup[er] epistolas Pauli reuerendi p[at]ris Nicolai de gorran sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ac pruincialis francie ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m]
Published
Cologne : Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 1478.
Description
[406] leaves ; 41 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the Harper Funds with the special assistance of Dr. Peter Glum, 1992.
Notes
The commentary printed under the name of Gorran is in fact that of Innocentius V (F. Stegmueller, Repertorium biblicum medii aevi, 5800).
Title from caption, leaf a2r: Postilla multu[m] sole[m]nis sup[er] epistolas Pauli reuerendi p[at]ris Nicolai de gorran sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ac pruincialis francie ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m] Incipit feliciter.
Printed in Koelhoff's types 5:175G and 6:107G.
Signatures: a-z¹⁰ aa-cc¹⁰ [dd⁸ ee-rr¹⁰ ss⁸]: 406 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.5 x 28.3 cm.
PML copy missing 10 leaves: a1 (blank), a10 (replaced in contemporary manuscript, in same hand as register), and ss1-8 (register from leaves ss3-8 replaced in contemporary manuscript).
Title from caption, leaf a2r: Postilla multu[m] sole[m]nis sup[er] epistolas Pauli reuerendi p[at]ris Nicolai de gorran sacre theologie p[ro]fessoris ac pruincialis francie ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m] Incipit feliciter.
Printed in Koelhoff's types 5:175G and 6:107G.
Signatures: a-z¹⁰ aa-cc¹⁰ [dd⁸ ee-rr¹⁰ ss⁸]: 406 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.5 x 28.3 cm.
PML copy missing 10 leaves: a1 (blank), a10 (replaced in contemporary manuscript, in same hand as register), and ss1-8 (register from leaves ss3-8 replaced in contemporary manuscript).
Binding
Contemporary German blind-stamped brown calf over partially-bevelled beech boards (41 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports, by the Cologne Schrotplatten bindery (EBDB w001443/Kryiss 96, active 1487-1510). Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves. Spine and board edges heavily damaged, remains of paper label on upper board. 2 clasps, missing (catch plates present). Fore edge leather tabs.
Variant title
Postilla multum solemnis sper epistolas Pauli reverendi patris Nicolai de Gorran
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary German (Cologne region) rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, and red capital strokes; primary initial (leaf a2r) with penword decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Several of the missing leaves (a10 and ss3-8) replaced in early/contemporary manuscript.
Provenance
Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographic notes (front fly leaf recto), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 1949; unidentified New York sale, 1836, purchased by Richard Bartlett (1792-1837), inscription (front endleaf 1 recto), who likely passed the book on to: The New Hampshire Historical Soceity, bookplate, dated MDCCCXXIII (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from NHHS on the Harper Funds with the special assistance of Dr. Peter Blum, 1992.
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