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GREGORY IX, POPE [Decretales cum glossa. Comm: Bernardus Parmensis. Add: Hieronymus Clarius], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 10 March 1493 image 1
GREGORY IX, POPE [Decretales cum glossa. Comm: Bernardus Parmensis. Add: Hieronymus Clarius], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 10 March 1493 image 2
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GREGORY IX, POPE
[Decretales cum glossa. Comm: Bernardus Parmensis. Add: Hieronymus Clarius], Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 10 March 1493

29 March 2023, 13:00 BST
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GREGORY IX, POPE

[Decretales cum glossa. Comm: Bernardus Parmensis. Add: Hieronymus Clarius], 384 leaves (of 386, lacking a1 & BB8, the opening and final leaves), double-column, 73 lines and headline, gothic letter, printed in red and black, 4 leaves of table bound at the beginning, fore-margins of table, opening fol.2-6, and final 11 leaves extended (just touching letters to a couple of pages), old burn-hole to L1-M3 resulting to loss in several lines of text (supplied in manuscript facsimile), note of purchase on first leaf in an early English hand "emi p[ro] duob[us] s[oldis]", ink annotations in an early hand to several margins, a manuscript vellum leaf pasted inside the lower cover with recipes for the colic and the stone, and copies of documents (see footnote) written in several English hands, manuscript title in nineteenth century hand pasted to initial blank, contemporary blind-stamped calf over wooden boards, sides with outer border composed of dog and boar stamp, central panel filled with diapers, containing small rosettes and a lozenge-shaped tool of a flower, rebacked in calf with red morocco gilt label, lacking clasps, corners worn [ISTC ig00470000; BMC II 436; Goff G470; HC 8030*], folio (345 x 235mm.), Nuremberg, Anton Koberger, 10 March 1493

Footnotes

The binding is decorated with four tools, comprising: rectangular, 6 x 10mm., hound pursuing boar; lozenge-shaped, 26 x 20mm., flower; lozenge-shaped, 20 x 15mm., rose between four fleurs-de-lys; round, 7mm., rosette. These are not traced, and together with the early provenance, suggest that the binding may be from an unrecorded workshop.

Provenance: Vellum leaf pasted inside the lower cover with recipes for the colic and the stone, and copies of documents relating to the parish of Hanwell and to the monastery of St. Mary at Wroxton in the Diocese of Lincoln dated between 1491 and 1528, all written in early English hands; Sir John Cope, 6th baronet (1673-1749), of Hanwell Castle, bookplate; George Dunn (1865-1912) of Woolley Hall, near Maidenhead, bookplate and pencil notes including acquisition in December 1902 and price-code; his sale, Sotheby's, 26 November 1917, lot 3212; Sotheby's, 28 May 1992, lot 24.

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