Accession number
PML 198699.6
Creator
Savonarola, Girolamo, 1452-1498.
Object title
Expositio ac meditatio in psalmu[m] Miserere. fratris Hieronymi de Ferraria ... quam in vltimis diebus vite sue edidit.
Published
Impressum Auguste, per Johannem Froschauer, [1500].
Description
[12] leaves : illustrations (woodcut) ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b6r: Explicit expositio ac meditatio in psalmo Miserere. fratris Hieronymi de Ferraria ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m]. Impressum Auguste p[er] Johanne[m] Froschauer. cccc.
Printed in Froschauer's types 3:92G, 4:130G, and 5:74G.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Crucifixion woodcut, leaves A1r-v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf b6r: Explicit expositio ac meditatio in psalmo Miserere. fratris Hieronymi de Ferraria ordinis p[re]dicatoru[m]. Impressum Auguste p[er] Johanne[m] Froschauer. cccc.
Printed in Froschauer's types 3:92G, 4:130G, and 5:74G.
Signatures: a-b⁶: 12 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Crucifixion woodcut, leaves A1r-v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
Binding
16th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 4 supports (2 double and 2 single) by the Einhorn IIIa bindery (EBDB w003108, southern Germany, active 1478-1514). Manuscript leaf from 12th-century German martyrology, 2-4 August as front pastedown, and plain paper rear pastedown; yellow edges. 1 clasp, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and paragraph marks (same in all parts of Sammelband). Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Unidentified contemporary shelfmark: II G 5 and contents inscription (fore edge) and inscription: "Caspar" (top edge); Alexandre and Elaine Rosenberg, Alexandre Rosenberg bookplate (designed by Picasso) (front pastedown), Rosenberg sale, Christie's NY, 23 April 2021, lot 85, to: Morgan Library & Museum, purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
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