Accession number
PML 26107
Creator
Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349.
Object title
De co[m]mendatione libri psalterij et vtilitate legendi et psallendi in psalterio sequitur et est talis.
Uniform title
Postilla super psalterium German
Published
[Strasbourg] : [Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?)], [about 1474]
Description
[404] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased in 1928.
Notes
BSB-Ink dates about 1478 from paper evidence.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-41¹⁰]: 404 leaves, leaf [2]/1 blank.
German preface (leaf [1]/3r): "Ein kurtz verrede uber den spater und furchtbar lerwye sich der leser diss bůchs haltten sol. das er nit in irrunge oder verdriesz gefůrt werde. und spricht also. [A]ls etwan dashimelbrot in ime gehebt hat alle[n] wolust un[d] gesmack der süszikait..."
Latin preface (leaf [1]/1r): "De co[m]mendatione libri psalterii et utilitate legendi et psallendi in psalterio sequitur et est talis. [N]ota super psalterium in glosa..."
Madsen (Katalog over det Kongelige Biblioteks inkunabler, 2876) assigned to Michael Greyff.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 21 cm, témoin (leaf [38]/9): 29.8 x 21.5 cm
PML copy with leaf [2]/1.10 (blank/"Ir menschen") misbound as outside leaf of quire [1]. Leaf [2]/2r with manuscript quire number "2."
PML copy with water staining in margins, sometimes heavy.
Prefaces in Latin and German; text in German.
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).
Title derived from GW and Verfasserlexikon; ISTC identifies as Psalterium [Latin and German].
Translated by Heinrich von Mügeln, see Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon (2nd ed.), III: 817-18.
Collation: [1⁴ 2-41¹⁰]: 404 leaves, leaf [2]/1 blank.
German preface (leaf [1]/3r): "Ein kurtz verrede uber den spater und furchtbar lerwye sich der leser diss bůchs haltten sol. das er nit in irrunge oder verdriesz gefůrt werde. und spricht also. [A]ls etwan dashimelbrot in ime gehebt hat alle[n] wolust un[d] gesmack der süszikait..."
Latin preface (leaf [1]/1r): "De co[m]mendatione libri psalterii et utilitate legendi et psallendi in psalterio sequitur et est talis. [N]ota super psalterium in glosa..."
Madsen (Katalog over det Kongelige Biblioteks inkunabler, 2876) assigned to Michael Greyff.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 21 cm, témoin (leaf [38]/9): 29.8 x 21.5 cm
PML copy with leaf [2]/1.10 (blank/"Ir menschen") misbound as outside leaf of quire [1]. Leaf [2]/2r with manuscript quire number "2."
PML copy with water staining in margins, sometimes heavy.
Prefaces in Latin and German; text in German.
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).
Title derived from GW and Verfasserlexikon; ISTC identifies as Psalterium [Latin and German].
Translated by Heinrich von Mügeln, see Die deutsche Literatur des Mittelalters: Verfasserlexikon (2nd ed.), III: 817-18.
Binding
Contemporary German pink-stained sheepskin with blind filet framing over partially-beveled wooden boards (30.5 x 22 cm), sewn on 3 double supports. Plain paper pastedowns; decorative endbands. 2 clasps, wanting (barbell catchplates remain). 2 early modern paper title labels on spine, one partially torn away.
Variant title
Psalterium [Latino-Germanicum]
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Black and red lombards at major canonical divisions; Beatus vir (leaf [2]/2r) with marginal red flourishing. Annotations: Marginal numeration of psalms. Note on leaf [2]/2 noting Lyra's authorship of glosses. Contemporary manuscript numeral signatures, mostly trimmed (bottom center margin) and guide numbers for psalms (bottom right corner).
Provenance
Innsbruck, St. Joseph (Servites), inscription, "ad Conv. D. Jo[seph]. Ord. Serv. Me. [?], 1817," (leaf [1]/1r); [unidentified sale catalogue, Gilhofer & Ranschburg?, before 1928]; Lathrop C. Harper, Selection of Incunabula III, Oct. 1928, lot 315; Pierpont Morgan Library, paper label (front pastedown), purchased from Harper, December 1928.
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