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Meditationes, seu, Contemplationes devotissimae.

Accession number
PML 35456.3
Creator
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
Object title

Meditationes, seu, Contemplationes devotissimae.

Published

[Basel] : [Johannes Schilling], [not after 1474]

Description

[16] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)

Notes
The press, identified as Schilling's and formerly located at Cologne, is reassigned by Dalbanne and Droz to Basel; see Needham, Ars impressoria, pp. 126-27.
Printer frequently cited as Johannes Solidi (Schilling).
Printed in Schilling's type 1:98G.
The Uppsala copy has manuscript date 1474 (Collijn, Katalog der Inkunablen zu Uppsala, 856).
Collation: [1-2⁸]: 16 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20.7 cm.
PML Checklist number based on former attribution to Cologne: Printer of the Albertus Magnus, De virtutibus (i.e. Johannes Schilling).
Variant title
Contemplationes devotissimae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized.
Provenance
Füssen, St. Mang (Benedictines), early sixteenth-century(?) inscription, "S. Magni in Fuessen," (front pastedown and leaf [1]/1r of PML 35456.1); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from E.P. Goldschmidt & Co., April 1939.
Classification
Century
Department