Accession number
PML 258-59
Creator
Rainerius, de Pisis, -approximately 1348.
Object title
Qvia in su[m]ma Rainerij que alias pantheologia vocatur
Published
[Augsburg] : [Günther Zainer], Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimoquarto [1474].
Description
[509, 484] leaves ; 42.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, before 1906.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Date from colophon, part II, leaf [52]/7r: Ab anno dominice incarnationis. Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimoquarto.
Printed in Zainer's type 4:95R.
Collation, part I: [1¹⁰ 2⁸(8+1: Causa fortune est) 3⁶ 4¹²; 5-49¹⁰ 50-51⁸ 52⁶]: 509 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [52]/6 blank; part II: [1-44¹⁰ 45⁸ 46-50¹⁰ 51-52⁸]: 484 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [52]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
In two parts.
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41 x 27 cm.
PML copy with part I, quires [1-4] bound at end of part I. Initial Z from part II, leaf [52]/4r cut out.
Date from colophon, part II, leaf [52]/7r: Ab anno dominice incarnationis. Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimoquarto.
Printed in Zainer's type 4:95R.
Collation, part I: [1¹⁰ 2⁸(8+1: Causa fortune est) 3⁶ 4¹²; 5-49¹⁰ 50-51⁸ 52⁶]: 509 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [52]/6 blank; part II: [1-44¹⁰ 45⁸ 46-50¹⁰ 51-52⁸]: 484 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [52]/8 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
In two parts.
Printed initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 41 x 27 cm.
PML copy with part I, quires [1-4] bound at end of part I. Initial Z from part II, leaf [52]/4r cut out.
Binding
15th-century German blind-stamped calf over partially-bevelled wooden boards (42.5 x 30 cm), sewn on 4 supports by the Benedictine monastery of St. Ulrich and Afra (Augsburg Benediktiner-Kloster, EBDB w000114/Kyriss 2, active 1470-1534); repaired. Modern plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands. 10 bosses and 2 clasps (per volume), vol. II missing 1 clasp and partial title label. Manuscript title and shelf mark labels (top boards).
Variant title
Summa universae theologiae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Augsburg rubrication, red initials (where required); primary initials illuminated or hand-painted with typical foliate decoration; dated 1474 (part II, leaf [52]/7r). Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Vellum fore edge tabs with red letters.
Provenance
Georgenberg (Tyrol), Benedictines of St. Joseph, later moved to Fiecht (Tyrol), armorial of Georgenberg and Caspar Augsburger (abbot, 1469-1491) (part I, leaf [5]/3r and part II, leaf [1]/2r) and inscriptions: "Monastery Montis S. Georgij 1652" and "Mon[aste]rij Montis S. Georgij 1659" (part I, leaves [5]/2r and [52]/5r and part II, leaves [1]/2r and [52]/7r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased before 1906.
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