Accession number
PML 76432
Creator
Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274.
Object title
Tractatus decem.
Published
[Leipzig] : Martin Landsberg, [between 1492 and 1496]
Description
[192] leaves ; 11 cm (16mo)
Credit line
Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1980.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Landsberg's printers' mark on part VI (De fallaciis), leaf F7v.
Dated between 1492 and 1496 in CIBN, after 1492 by Goff.
Printed in Landsberg's types 3:69G and 4:140G.
Signatures, in 10 parts: I: A⁸: 8 leaves, leaf A8 blank; II: A-B⁸: 16 leaves; III: A-D⁸: 32 leaves; IV:A-C⁸: 24 leaves, leaf C8 blank; V: A-D⁸: 32 leaves; VI: A-F⁸: 40 leaves, leaf F8 blank; VII: A⁸: 8 leaves; VIII: A⁸: 8 leaves, leaf A8 blank; IX: A⁸: 8 leaves; X: A⁸: 8 leaves, leaf A8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery 16mo.
1 column, 19 lines. Initial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 10.5 x 7.6 cm.
PML copy missing 8 leaves: part I (De natura verbi intellectus), leaves A1-8.
Landsberg's printers' mark on part VI (De fallaciis), leaf F7v.
Dated between 1492 and 1496 in CIBN, after 1492 by Goff.
Printed in Landsberg's types 3:69G and 4:140G.
Signatures, in 10 parts: I: A⁸: 8 leaves, leaf A8 blank; II: A-B⁸: 16 leaves; III: A-D⁸: 32 leaves; IV:A-C⁸: 24 leaves, leaf C8 blank; V: A-D⁸: 32 leaves; VI: A-F⁸: 40 leaves, leaf F8 blank; VII: A⁸: 8 leaves; VIII: A⁸: 8 leaves, leaf A8 blank; IX: A⁸: 8 leaves; X: A⁸: 8 leaves, leaf A8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery 16mo.
1 column, 19 lines. Initial spaces, without guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 10.5 x 7.6 cm.
PML copy missing 8 leaves: part I (De natura verbi intellectus), leaves A1-8.
Binding
Contemporary German blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards (11 x 8 cm.), sewn on 2 supports by the Regensburg Blüte dreiteilg frei workshop (EBDB w000009/Kyriss 138, active ca. 1477-1518). Plain paper pastedowns and 14th/early-15th century unidentified manuscript as fly leaves. 1 clasp, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Contemporary manuscript title: "De modalisbus et universalibus gustabitur afinus" (front fly leaf recto and rear fly leaf verso). 17th/18th-century manuscript contents, without part I (front pastedown).
Provenance
William Sandys W. Vaux (1818-1885), inscription: "W.S.W. Vaux, Brit. Mus. 1844" (front pastedown); Albert Ehrman (1890-1969), Broxbourne Library, trimmed monogram bookplate (front pastedown) and monogram stamp and library bookplate (rear pastedown); Broxbourne sale, part I, Sotheby's, 14 Nov. 1977, lot 223 to Antiquariaat Meijer-Elte NV for £100; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman from Lathrop C. Harper, June 1980.
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