Precordiale deuotorum.

Accession number

PML 59.2

Object title

Published

Impressum Argentine : [Johann Prüss], Mcccc.lxxxix [1489].

Description

[168] leaves : illustration (woodcut) ; 15 cm (8vo)

Credit line

Purchased with the Irwin collection; 1900.

Notes

By Jacobus Philippi (see Sack(Freiburg) p.1621).
Title from half-title page, leaf [A]1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf V12r: Uniuersis [et] singulis d[omi]ni Iesu passionis ... Impressum Arg[e]n[tine]. Anno salutis Mcccc.lxxxix.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
Woodcut.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.7 x 9.8 cm.

Binding

15th-century German blind-stamped calf(?) over wooden boards (15 x 11 cm), sewn on 3 supports by the Erfurt St. Peter bindery (EBDB w002367, active 1358-1520; also known as Erfurt Benediktinerkloster Sankt Peter und Paul II, St. Peter II, and Peterskloster IV-V); repaired and rebacked by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper (renewed?) pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands. Metal corner pieces and 5 bosses on each board; 2 clasps, missing.

Variant title

Praecordiale devotorum

Inscriptions/Markings

Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and underlining. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Fore edge knots in Precordiale. "Maria" and "Jesus" written on edges.

Provenance

Erfurt, Benedictines of St. Peter, binding and inscription: "Mon[aste]rii S[an]cti Petri Erff[ordiensis]" (leaf [A]1r); Georg Kloss (1787-1854), bookplate (front pastedown), his sale, Sotheby's, 7 May 1835, lot 2066; unidentified stamp: "Georg [abraded]" (not Kloss) (front endleaf 1 recto); Theodore Irwin (1827-1902), purchased from Sabin, May 1881, entire library purchased in 1900 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.

Classification

Incunable Collection

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Century

15th century

Department

Printed Books

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