Prima[-tertia] pars operu[m] Johannis Gerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.

Contributor:

Schott, Peter, 1458-1490.

Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann, 1445-1510.

Kessler, Nikolaus, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1489

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Doctrines--Early works to 1800.

Catholic Church.

Theology--Early works to 1800.

Theology.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Chained bindings (Binding) -- Germany -- Heilbronn.

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Switzerland -- Basel -- 15th century.

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph, 1869) (bookplate) (donor)

Carmelites (Heilbronn, Germany) (inscription)

Physical Description:

3 volumes : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Prima pars operum Johannis Gerson

Goff title: Opera

Fingerprint:

1A0G tet* e-ar EsPr (C) 1489 (R) v.3

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Nicolaus Kesler], [12 and 21 Mar. 1489]

Notes:

Edited by Peter Schott and Johann Geiler von Kayserberg. Cf. GW.

Imprint from Goff. Vol. 1 dated 12 March 1489; vols. 2 and 3 dated 21 March 1489. Kessler is named in the verses at the end of vol. 3 which follow his device on leaf 2Z9.

Vols. 1-3 and the "Inventarium" have special title-pages. The "Inventarium" is frequently bound in vols. 1 or 3.

Colophon of vol. 3 (leaf 2Z9) reads: Finiu[n]t opera cancelarij parisiensis doctor christianissimi magistri Johannis de Gerson. que vt fruge[m] lectori vber rimam ferant eme[n]datissima lima castigata fuere Anno d[omi]ni. Mcccclxxxix. xij.kal[endas]. me[n]s[is] Aprilis.

Vol. 1: [188] leaves; vol. 2: [230] leaves (last blank); vol. 3: [320] leaves (last blank); index: [46] leaves (last blank).

Vol. 1 signatures: a⁸ b-m⁶ n-o⁸ p-v⁶⁸̇ w⁶ x-z⁶⁸̇ [et]⁸ [con]⁶ t̃⁸ [rum]⁸.

Vol. 2 signatures: A-E⁸ F-N⁶ O-X⁸⁶̇ Y⁶ Z⁸ 2A⁶ 2B-2G⁶⁸̇ 2H-2L⁶ (2L6 blank).

Vol. 3 signatures: 2a⁸ 2b-2m⁶ 2n-2z⁸⁶̇ 2A-2G⁸⁶̇ 2H-2I⁸ 2K⁶ 2L-2N⁸ 2O-2X⁶⁸̇ 2Y⁸ 2Z¹⁰ (2Z10 blank).

Index signatures: 1⁸ 2⁶ 3-6⁸.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. 57 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 233 (247) x 155 (166) mm.; col. width: 74 mm. Printed marginalia. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords. Woodcut device of Kesler on last leaf of vol. 3.

The works are divided into a hundred sections with printed numbers on upper corner, and these again into subsections, marked alphabetically for indexing.

Full-page woodcut in all three vols. on verso of t.p. depicting Gerson as a pilgrim, walking to the right followed by his dog, and carrying a staff in his right hand and a shield (showing the seven planets and with a winged heart on which is inscribed a tau) slung over his left arm. In the background, a castle is on the left and a tree on the right. This is a different version of the woodcut used in the Strasbourg 1488 edition. Cf. Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois, no. 4102.

Local Notes:

Library's copy imperfect: v. 1-2 wanting.

Leaf size (vol. 3): 309 x 213 mm.

Rubrication (vol. 3): Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlines supplied in red.

Vol. 3 imperfect: title leaf with woodcut ill. on verso wanting. Leaves 2C2 and 2G5 torn at lower corner with no loss of text.

Library's copy given to the University of Pennsylvania Library in 1925 by the family of Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909).

Library's copy has an early ownership inscription of the Carmelites of Heilbronn ("F.F. Carmel: Hailbron.") on leaf aa2 of vol. 3, and the bookplate and autograph, dated 1869, of Henry Charles Lea on the endpapers of vol. 3.

Vol. 3 bound at Heilbronn in early pigskin over wood boards; blind tooled with fillet borders and center panel; title written on vellum and attached to front board; with metal floral corners and center piece; two metal and leather clasps (one wanting); with metal piece for attaching a chain on top back board; five raised bands on spine; double headbands.

Cited in:

Goff G-187

BM 15th cent. III, p. 767 (IB.37613)

BSB-Ink. G-184

GW 10715

ISTC no. UKBYIG00187000-E

Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch (3. Aufl.) 4102

OCLC:

249397660