Accession number
PML 199030
Creator
Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.
Object title
Tractatus pulcherrimus de consolacione theologie eximij in sacra pagina professoris Ioh[ann]is Gerson cancellarij Parisiensis incipit feliciter : et habet modum libri Boecij de consolacione philosophie.
Published
[Cologne] : Impressum per me Arnoldum Ther Hornen, [approximately 1472]
Description
[64] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, 2023.
Notes
Title from caption at incipit on leaf [1]/1r, printed in red.
Printing city and date from ISTC.
Printer from colophon, leaf [8]/8v, printed in red: Consu[m]matu[m] ac co[m]pletu[m] est hoc opus de [con]solacione theologie magistri Joha[n]nis Gerson cancellarij Parisiensis ad laudem et gloria[m] dei et vtilitate[m] legencium . ac impressu[m] per me Arnoldu[m] ther horne[n] Qui vult ergo legat d[omi]n[u]m post hoc benedicat. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Ther Hoernen's type 1*:100G.
Signatures: [1-8⁸]: 64 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 13.9 cm.
Printing city and date from ISTC.
Printer from colophon, leaf [8]/8v, printed in red: Consu[m]matu[m] ac co[m]pletu[m] est hoc opus de [con]solacione theologie magistri Joha[n]nis Gerson cancellarij Parisiensis ad laudem et gloria[m] dei et vtilitate[m] legencium . ac impressu[m] per me Arnoldu[m] ther horne[n] Qui vult ergo legat d[omi]n[u]m post hoc benedicat. [Printer's mark]
Printed in Ther Hoernen's type 1*:100G.
Signatures: [1-8⁸]: 64 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.2 x 13.9 cm.
Binding
Late 18th/early 19th-century tree calf over paper boards (21 x 14.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves.
Variant title
Tractatus pulcherrimus de consolatione theologiae eximii in sacra pagina professoris Johannis Gerson cancellarij parisiensis incipit foeliciter
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary Low Countries (Bruges?) rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes; primary initial (leaf [1]/1r) in red/blue with penwork decoration. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Evidence of fore-edge tabs suggests that this work was previously part of a Sammelband; unidentified modern collector/bookseller annotations, "29.VI.2012 Paris," "VK 491," "CC P.A.X. 1995," and "coll. compl. C.G. 1945" (rear endleaf 1 recto); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Bruce McKittrick Rare Books on the Curt F. Bühler Fund, Sept. 2023.
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