Accession number
PML 128540.2
Creator
Albertus, Magnus, Saint, 1193?-1280.
Object title
Alberti magni doctoris laudatissimi tractatus qui appellatur paradisus anime, tractatus de virtutibus anime veris et perfectis.
Published
Impressum Colonie : per me Henricum Quentell, .M.cccc.xcviij. mensis Iulij die .xx [20 July 1498].
Description
[34] leaves ; 21.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
Notes
Pseudo-Albertus. On the authorship, see Verfasserlexikon 2nd ed., VII: col. 293-98.
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [F]6r: Explicit opusculum Alberti magni doctoris laudatissimi, quondam Ratisponen[sis] episcopi, de virtutib[us] anime veris et perfectis. Impressu[m] Colonie per me Henricu[m] quentell. Anno virginalis partus .M.cccc.xcviij. Mensis Iulij die .xx.
Printed in Quentell's types 7:80G, 9:280G, and 10:155G.
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C-D⁶ E⁴ [F]⁶: 34 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Bearer type visible on lower part of leaf [F]6.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy with lower portion of leaf A1r cut away.
Title from half-title page, leaf A1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf [F]6r: Explicit opusculum Alberti magni doctoris laudatissimi, quondam Ratisponen[sis] episcopi, de virtutib[us] anime veris et perfectis. Impressu[m] Colonie per me Henricu[m] quentell. Anno virginalis partus .M.cccc.xcviij. Mensis Iulij die .xx.
Printed in Quentell's types 7:80G, 9:280G, and 10:155G.
Signatures: A⁸ B⁴ C-D⁶ E⁴ [F]⁶: 34 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Bearer type visible on lower part of leaf [F]6.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20 x 13.5 cm.
PML copy with lower portion of leaf A1r cut away.
Binding
15th/early 16th-century Salzburg blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (21,5 x 15 cm), sewn on 2 supports by the bindery at the Benedictine monastery of St. Peter, Salzburg (EBDB w002790, aka Salzburg St Peter IV, active second-half of the 15th century-1564). 1 clasp. Manuscript title label on top board, with second label, perhaps former shelfmark, missing. Manuscript waste of early liturgical book with heighted neumes as binding reinforcement and quire guards.
Variant title
Paradisus animae sive tractatus de virtutibus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials (where required). Annotations: A few marginal notations in text, mainly keywords in graphite.
Provenance
Unidentified shelfmarks: H.2.83 and I.A.23 (front pastedown); abraded inscription (leaf a1r of Speculum anime); Bernard M. Rosenthal, Inc. (cited in Goff Supplement); Walter Goldwater (1907-1985), his sale, Swann Galleries, part II, 5 Dec. 1985, lot 121 for $84,000; Helmut N. Friedlaender (1913-2008), booklabel (front pastedown), his sale, Christie's NY, part I, 23 April 2001, lot 119, to: Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased (via HP Kraus) on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 2001.
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