Accession number
PML 198699.2
Object title
Floretus sancti Bernardi in se continens sacre theologie et canonum flores ad gaudia paradisi finaliter eos (qui se in illis exercitauerint) perducentes.
Uniform title
Floretus.
Published
Colonie impressus : [Heinrich Quentell], anno ante iubileum centesimum [1499].
Description
[52] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2021.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf Aa1r.
The attribution to Saint Bernard is false. Cf. Liber floretus : herausgegeben nach der Hs. Utrecht, U.B. 283, by Árpád Orbán, 1978, p. vii-viii; GW.
Imprint from colophon, leaf Ii5v: Diui Bernardi Floretus Colonie impressus explicit feliciter Anno ante iubileum centesimum.
Printed in Quentell's types 6:63G, 7:80G, 9:280G, and 10:155G.
Signatures: Aa-Gg⁶ Hh⁴ Ii⁶: 52 leaves, leaf Ii6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
Woodcut on title page.
Poem, with typographically distinguished anonymous commentary.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13.5 cm.
The attribution to Saint Bernard is false. Cf. Liber floretus : herausgegeben nach der Hs. Utrecht, U.B. 283, by Árpád Orbán, 1978, p. vii-viii; GW.
Imprint from colophon, leaf Ii5v: Diui Bernardi Floretus Colonie impressus explicit feliciter Anno ante iubileum centesimum.
Printed in Quentell's types 6:63G, 7:80G, 9:280G, and 10:155G.
Signatures: Aa-Gg⁶ Hh⁴ Ii⁶: 52 leaves, leaf Ii6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto, in half-sheets.
Woodcut on title page.
Poem, with typographically distinguished anonymous commentary.
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.
Variant title
Liber floretus Sancti Bernardi
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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