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mei/02139948 Inc. 15 adl. [02139948]

Warsaw, Metropolitan Seminary (PL) : Inc. 15 adl.

ISTC No.ii00014000
TitleImitatio Christi. Add: Johannes Gerson: De meditatione cordis
ImprintStrassburg : Martin Flach (printer of Strassburg), 1487
Format4°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectLiterature-devotional
Keywordscollection
Periodcontemporary

Description of Copy

Copy Id02139948
Holding InstitutionWarsaw, Metropolitan Seminary (PL)
ShelfmarkInc. 15 adl.
Also bound with this copyDandulo, Fantinus: Compendium catholicae fidei. - Venice : Reynaldus de Novimagio, about 1486-88 [Inc. 16 adl.; id00004000] (MEI ID: 02139939)
Antoninus Florentinus: Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. Add: Titulus de restitutionibus. - Strassburg : Martin Flach (printer of Strassburg), 1488 [Inc. 17 adl.; ia00822000] (MEI ID: 02139949)
Albertus Magnus: Secreta mulierum et virorum (cum commento). - Leipzig : Conrad Kachelofen, about 1490 [Inc. 18 adl.; ia00309100] (MEI ID: 02139950)
NoteCreated by Martyna Osuch.
Size of leaves194 × 138 mm
Copy FeaturesComplete
Copy Features - NoteTwo additional plane leaves bound between a4 and b1.
Support material (book)Paper
WatermarkYes
DescriptionPaper of the manuscript cobound in the end of composite volume comes most likely from Italy, Trent area (1486).

Provenance 1490 - 1500

Areae-it
Time period1490 - 1500
Provenance nameAnonymous, Italy, 1525-1575 [Person; Annotator] (Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Link to Provenance ImageFirst page of the cobound manuscript
Date of evidence15th c.
Method of acquisitionunknown
Manuscript notesIn the end of the book there are six leaves added with manuscript fragments of Pico's della Mirandola works. Inc.: "Duodecim Regule Johannis Pici Mirandule partim excitantes partem dirigentes homines in spirituali pugna ...". Then "Duodecim arma spiritualis pugnae quae in promptu haberi debent" and "Duodecim conditiones amantis". Then the beginning fragment of Idiotae Viri Sancti annotationis in psalmum 15. Inc. : "Conserva me Domine. Si quis perfectum vult recognoscere statum suum ...", exp."Ut videamus deum et quem misisti Iesum Christum. finis".
Location in BookParts only
CommentsYes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1500 - 1600

Areae-gx
Time period1500 - 1600
Provenance nameAnonymous, Germany, 1500-1600 [Person; Former Owner] (Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeBinding
Decoration
Manuscript Notes
Link to Provenance ImageManuscript notes on the front endleaf
Binding
Date of evidencefirst half of the 16th c.
Method of acquisitionunknown
Binding noteBound in the brown leather over wooden boards by anonymous, probably German, binder in the 16th c. Both covers tooled in blind with rolls and fillets (multiple frames). On the both covers singular frames made with small rectangular stamps with "Maria" inscription. Rests of Gothic clasps. Both pastedowns and endleaves made of reused parchment with sketches of huge letters, maybe some kind of templates. On the both endleaves there are long manuscript notes, mainly quotations from Church Fathers like Thomas Aquinas or s. Bonaventura (maybe draft of some sermon on the front, detached endleaf). Titles of the works cobound in the composite volume written on the tail-edges of the book.
Binding date16th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialWood
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureYes
Binding statusOriginal binding (not significantly altered)
TitlingManuscript
ToolingBlind
EdgesUncoloured
Writing on edgesAcross
GaufferedNo
Decoration NoteOne decorative initial in red and yellow on the recto of fol. b1. Pen initials in red, sometimes with decorative floral motifs.
RubricationYes
Pen initialsYes
Rubrication noteRubrication in red. (15th/16th c.)
Manuscript notesOne maniculum. One longer note (quote from Thomas Aquinas) on the verso of the last leaf of the 15th c. Italian manuscript cobound in the end of the book. On the verso of left cover there is a drawing of a woman (?) made in brown ink.
Ms. notes (frequency)Occasional
Location in BookParts only
SupplementsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
DrawingsYes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance

PlaceWarsaw (Geonames ID: 756135)
Areae-pl
Provenance nameWarsaw, Metropolitan Seminary Library [Corporate body; Present Owner] (Library, Religious)
Provenance TypeStamp
Shelfmark
StampsModern stamp in violet ink BIBLIOTEKA SEMINARIUM METR. WARSZAWSKIEGO and number written in black ink: 50451.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered incomplete
Last Edit2021-01-22 10:57:56

All Copies

  02139948

Warsaw, Metropolitan Seminary (PL) : Inc. 15 adl.

ISTC No.ii00014000
TitleImitatio Christi. Add: Johannes Gerson: De meditatione cordis
ImprintStrassburg : Martin Flach (printer of Strassburg), 1487
Format4°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectLiterature-devotional
Keywordscollection
Periodcontemporary

Description of Copy

Copy Id02139948
Holding InstitutionWarsaw, Metropolitan Seminary (PL)
ShelfmarkInc. 15 adl.
Also bound with this copyDandulo, Fantinus: Compendium catholicae fidei. - Venice : Reynaldus de Novimagio, about 1486-88 [Inc. 16 adl.; id00004000] (MEI ID: 02139939)
Antoninus Florentinus: Confessionale: Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio. Add: Titulus de restitutionibus. - Strassburg : Martin Flach (printer of Strassburg), 1488 [Inc. 17 adl.; ia00822000] (MEI ID: 02139949)
Albertus Magnus: Secreta mulierum et virorum (cum commento). - Leipzig : Conrad Kachelofen, about 1490 [Inc. 18 adl.; ia00309100] (MEI ID: 02139950)
NoteCreated by Martyna Osuch.
Size of leaves194 × 138 mm
Copy FeaturesComplete
Copy Features - NoteTwo additional plane leaves bound between a4 and b1.
Support material (book)Paper
WatermarkYes
DescriptionPaper of the manuscript cobound in the end of composite volume comes most likely from Italy, Trent area (1486).

Provenance 1490 - 1500

Areae-it
Time period1490 - 1500
Provenance nameAnonymous, Italy, 1525-1575 [Person; Annotator] (Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Link to Provenance ImageFirst page of the cobound manuscript
Date of evidence15th c.
Method of acquisitionunknown
Manuscript notesIn the end of the book there are six leaves added with manuscript fragments of Pico's della Mirandola works. Inc.: "Duodecim Regule Johannis Pici Mirandule partim excitantes partem dirigentes homines in spirituali pugna ...". Then "Duodecim arma spiritualis pugnae quae in promptu haberi debent" and "Duodecim conditiones amantis". Then the beginning fragment of Idiotae Viri Sancti annotationis in psalmum 15. Inc. : "Conserva me Domine. Si quis perfectum vult recognoscere statum suum ...", exp."Ut videamus deum et quem misisti Iesum Christum. finis".
Location in BookParts only
CommentsYes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1500 - 1600

Areae-gx
Time period1500 - 1600
Provenance nameAnonymous, Germany, 1500-1600 [Person; Former Owner] (Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeBinding
Decoration
Manuscript Notes
Link to Provenance ImageManuscript notes on the front endleaf
Binding
Date of evidencefirst half of the 16th c.
Method of acquisitionunknown
Binding noteBound in the brown leather over wooden boards by anonymous, probably German, binder in the 16th c. Both covers tooled in blind with rolls and fillets (multiple frames). On the both covers singular frames made with small rectangular stamps with "Maria" inscription. Rests of Gothic clasps. Both pastedowns and endleaves made of reused parchment with sketches of huge letters, maybe some kind of templates. On the both endleaves there are long manuscript notes, mainly quotations from Church Fathers like Thomas Aquinas or s. Bonaventura (maybe draft of some sermon on the front, detached endleaf). Titles of the works cobound in the composite volume written on the tail-edges of the book.
Binding date16th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialWood
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureYes
Binding statusOriginal binding (not significantly altered)
TitlingManuscript
ToolingBlind
EdgesUncoloured
Writing on edgesAcross
GaufferedNo
Decoration NoteOne decorative initial in red and yellow on the recto of fol. b1. Pen initials in red, sometimes with decorative floral motifs.
RubricationYes
Pen initialsYes
Rubrication noteRubrication in red. (15th/16th c.)
Manuscript notesOne maniculum. One longer note (quote from Thomas Aquinas) on the verso of the last leaf of the 15th c. Italian manuscript cobound in the end of the book. On the verso of left cover there is a drawing of a woman (?) made in brown ink.
Ms. notes (frequency)Occasional
Location in BookParts only
SupplementsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
DrawingsYes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance

PlaceWarsaw (Geonames ID: 756135)
Areae-pl
Provenance nameWarsaw, Metropolitan Seminary Library [Corporate body; Present Owner] (Library, Religious)
Provenance TypeStamp
Shelfmark
StampsModern stamp in violet ink BIBLIOTEKA SEMINARIUM METR. WARSZAWSKIEGO and number written in black ink: 50451.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered incomplete
Last Edit2021-01-22 10:57:56