Cassiodori clarissimi Senatoris In Psalteriu[m] expositio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cassiodorus, Senator, approximately 487-approximately 580, author.

Contributor:

Johannes, de Lapide, approximately 1425-1496, writer of supplementary textual content.

Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Expositio Psalmorum

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible. Psalms--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Incunabula -- Switzerland -- Basel -- 1491.

Wooden boards (Binding)

Beveled edge boards (Binding)

Clasp plates (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Oppenheimer, James (donor) (inscription) (CJS Incunable copy)

Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning (bookplate) (CJS Incunable copy)

Oliva, Nicola, -1684 (bookplate) (former owner) (inscription) (CJS Incunable copy)

Augustinians (Siena, Italy) (former owner) (inscription) (CJS Incunable copy)

Physical Description:

[340] leaves ; 30 cm (fol.)

Other Title:

In Psalterium expositio

Goff title: Expositio in Psalterium

Fingerprint:

e-j. u.i. i.i- lxme (C) 1491 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : P[er] magistru[m] Iohanne[m] de Amerbach p[rae]clar[a]e Basilien[sis] vrbis ciuem, Anno d[omi]ni. M.cccc.xci. [1491]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on leaf Y8r which reads: Disertissimi at[que] dignissimi sanct[a]e ecclesi[a]e doctoris Cassiodori, roman[a]e vrbis q[uo]nda[m] Clarissimi senatoris: famatissima psalmoru[m] expositio: post alioru[m] sancto[rum] patru[m] s[cri]pta exactissime digesta, dulcissimo[que] fonte purissim[a]e latinitatis irrigata: cu[m] [per]uigilanti eme[n]dationis studio: auctore omniu[m] coopera[n]te: arte imp[re]ssoria [per]fecta est: [per] magistru[m] Iohanne[m] de Amerbach p[rae]clar[a]e Basilien[sis] vrbis ciuem. Anno d[omi]ni. M.cccc.xcj.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf 2a2r: 50 lines, plus headline; area of text: 216 (228) x 143 mm; column width: 68 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. Printed marginalia. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: 2a⁸ 2b⁶ 2c⁸ a-m⁸/⁶ n-p⁸ q–z⁶/⁸ A-D⁶/⁸ E-G⁶ H-T⁸/⁶ U-Y⁸.

Leaves n4, C4, and K3 signed o4, C5, and I3, respectively.

"Includes a prefatory letter to Amerbach by Johannes Heynlin."--Walsh.

Local Notes:

CJS Incunable copy: leaf size: 286 x 205 mm.

CJS Incunable copy without rubrication.

CJS Incunable copy has early manuscript shelf-mark(?) ("23.3.6") on title leaf; early manuscript correction to signature mark on leaf K3r; a few early manuscript marks and marginal notes in text.

CJS Incunable copy presented to Dropsie College for Hebrew and Cognate Learning in 1912 by Dr. James Oppenheimer.

CJS Incunable copy has bookplate ("LIBRARY OF THE DROPSIE COLLEGE FOR HEBREW AND COGNATE LEARNING") with manuscript note ("Gift of Dr. James Oppenheimer") on front pastedown.

CJS Incunable copy has early manuscript ownership inscription ("Conuentus Sancti August. Senarum") of the Augustinian house associated with Chiesa di Sant'Agostino (Siena, Italy) at head of title leaf.

CJS Incunable copy has partially illegible 17th-century manuscript ownership inscription ("Ad Vsum M[...]s Niccolai Oliua Senensis [...] [...] S. Aug:") of Nicola Oliva, Augustinian of Siena (later Bishop of Cortona; d. 1684), written over an earlier largely illegible inscription ("fr[atr]is Niccolai [...] Agustini [...] [...]"); armorial bookplate ("Msr. F. Nicolaus Oliva A' Prato Senen: August") of the same person on title leaf.

CJS Incunable copy bound in quarter blind-tooled dark brown leather over beveled-edge wooden boards; 2 metal catchplates on left board; remains of 2 leather clasps on right board; 3 raised bands on spine; title ("DIVI. HIER. TOMVS. SEXTVS. ET SEPTIMVS") stamped in gold on spine and extending to boards; modern endpapers, partially detached from boards; offset(?) of Greek(?) printed matter(?) faintly visible on inside right board beneath pastedown.

CJS Incunable copy: outer corners of left board and tail outer corner of right board damaged; a few wormholes in boards; wormhole in center of title leaf with minor damage to bookplate on recto and text on verso; a few wormholes in leaves at beginning and end of volume; stain in lower portion of inner margin of leaves in latter portion of volume.

Cited in:

Goff C-236

BM 15th cent. III, page 753 (IB.37344)

GW 6163

BSB-Ink. C-168

BN cat. des incun. C-130

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1173

ISTC ic00236000

OCLC:

11101994