De planctu ecclesie religiosi fratris Aluari Pelagij natione hÿspani iuriscanonici doctoris eximij ordinis sancti Francisci professione (f.[1]-[126])

Description

Signatures: [a-i¹⁰ K-l⁶ m-n¹⁰ o⁴ A⁶ B-P¹⁰ Q⁸ R¹⁰ S⁸ T⁹ V-Z aa-bb¹⁰ cc-ff⁸ *⁸].

Imprint from colophon.

Colophon on [400v] reads: Per honorabile[m] viru[m] ioha[n]nem zeiner de.Rütlingen [pro]creatum vrbe Vlm [com]mora[n]tem. cu[m] summa dilige[n]tia correcta at[que] arte imp[re]ssoria effigiata. Cum indiuidue trinitatis adiutorio finita. & feliciter consummata. Anno d[omi]ni Millesimoq[ua]dringe[n]tesimoseptuagesimoquarto. die vero. xxvj. octobris.

Printed in two columns with 58 lines to a full column.

Text in Gothic type with headings in Roman.

Printed headlines.

Large ornamental woodcut initials.

Outline woodcut major initials.

Historiated woodcut initial O and woodcut border on [a9r] (leaf [9r]). The capital O is formed by two men with chained ankles and holding each other's chains; in the middle is seated the author, surrounded by a scroll bearing the words: Eccie milita[n]tis statum. vide in libro planctum [et]c[etera]; the partial border woodcut border of vine and leaves incorporates a jester.

Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00249000.

Indexed in: Hain 891; Goff P249; BMC II 523.

Features

There are notes in black ink manuscript in Hebrew on the inside front board of volume 1.

The large ornamental woodcut initials at the start of the table and at the beginning of the text have been coloured in red, yellow, blue and green.

The small outline woodcut initials have been coloured alternately in red and blue and occasionally green.

Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.

This copy is wanting leaves [9], [127] and [311].

The table is bound at the front of volume 1.

Some water damage.

Bindings

Bound in two volumes divided at leaf [137]. Both books are bound in sheepskin over wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of triple fillets containing a repeating pattern of roses and other flowers. The central panel is blind-tooled with diagonal triple fillets containing lozenges with fleurs-de-lys, roses and other flowers. The design is much worn. On the upper covers of both volumes are the remains of paper lettering pieces. The spines have four raised bands. In the first panel of volume 1 is a paper lettering piece with writing in black ink manuscript, now mostly illegible but for the date: 1474. In the third panel is a paper lettering piece with the letter F written in black ink manuscript. In the fifth panel is a paper lettering piece with a number written in black ink manuscript: v. VI. In the first panel of volume 2 is a paper lettering piece with writing in black ink manuscript, now mostly illegible but for the words: Pars [...] Alvar. Pelagii [...] Ulmæ 1474. In the third panel is a paper lettering piece with the letter F written in black ink manuscript. In the fifth panel is a paper lettering piece with a number written in black ink manuscript: v. VII. On the inside back cover of volume 2 are fragments of two leaves of vellum with rubricated liturgical text in gothic manuscript, fourteenth- or fifteenth-century. Losses to both spines reveal the endbands and sewing supports. There is evidence of metal furniture having been attached to both books in the form of a circular central boss and circular bosses at the corners of the central panels on the upper and lower covers. Metal cornerpieces remain on both books, which were fastened with two decorated metal clasps with the catch on the upper cover. The upper board of volume 2 is split and is held in place by the pastedown. Volume 1 - Size: 485 x 330mm. Leaf size: 466 x 320mm. Volume 2 - Size: 483 x 340mm. Leaf size: 466 x 323mm.

Provenance

Inscription in black ink manuscript on the recto of the first leaf of the table in volume 1: Conventus Nissensis ad S.M. in Rosis. The book once belonged to the Franciscan convent in Nysa [Neisse], Poland.

Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the inside front board of volume 1.

From the collection of Lord Brotherton of Wakefield. No bookplates are present in either volume.

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