Accession number
PML 29
Creator
Torquemada, Juan de, 1388-1468.
Object title
Meditationes, seu Contemplationes devotissimae.
Published
[Mainz] : Impresse per Iohannem Numeister clericum Maguntinu[m], Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimonono die tercia mensis septembris [3 September 1479].
Description
[50] leaves : illustrations (metalcuts) ; 30 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1900.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): "Meditationes Reverendissimi patris domini Iohannis de Turrecremata Sacrosanctae Romanae ecclesie Cardinarlis posite et depicte de ipsius mandato in ecclesie ambitu sancte Marie de Minerva Rome."
Imprint from colophon (leaf [7]/1v): "... impresse p[er] iohannem numeister clericum maguntinu[m] Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimonono die tercia me[n]sis septe[m]bris feliciter sunt consummate."
Printed in Neumeister's type 1:141G.
Collation: [1-6⁸ 7²]: 50 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [7]/2 blank. Variant collations in GW, BMC, BSB-Ink, and Bod-inc with quire [6] of 9 leaves, either ⁸⁺¹ or ¹⁰⁻¹.
Imprint from colophon (leaf [7]/1v): "... impresse p[er] iohannem numeister clericum maguntinu[m] Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimonono die tercia me[n]sis septe[m]bris feliciter sunt consummate."
Printed in Neumeister's type 1:141G.
Collation: [1-6⁸ 7²]: 50 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [7]/2 blank. Variant collations in GW, BMC, BSB-Ink, and Bod-inc with quire [6] of 9 leaves, either ⁸⁺¹ or ¹⁰⁻¹.
Binding
19th-century hard-grained brown morocco over paper boards (30 x 22.3 cm) by James Hayday (stamp on front flyleaf). Marbled paper pastedowns and flyleaves; decorative endbands. Gilt-tooled title on spine.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, lombards and capital strokes.
Modern pencil notations on flyleaves from booksellers and PML. Inscription "A. W54 T. append." (front endleaf 1 verso).
Modern pencil notations on flyleaves from booksellers and PML. Inscription "A. W54 T. append." (front endleaf 1 verso).
Provenance
Bertram, Fourth Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), shelf mark: 2.H. (front pastedown verso); his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 9 May 1898, lot 3781 to Bernard Quaritch for £77; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Quaritch, 2 October 1900.
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