Prima[-tertia] pars operum Johannis Gerson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gerson, Jean, 1363-1429.

Contributor:

Schott, Peter, 1458-1490.

Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann, 1445-1510.

Flach, Martin, -1500, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1494

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Theology--Early works to 1800.

Theology.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

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

Other Title:

Prima pars operum Johannis Gerson

Inventorium eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur

Goff title: Opera

Fingerprint:

n-R. e-.I .I.H maCo (C) 1494 (R) v.1

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Martin Flach], [13 Dec. 1494]

Notes:

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

Title from title page of vol. 1.

Vols. 1-3 have special title-pages only. The "Inventarium" is frequently bound with one of the three vols. and has special t.p. which reads: Inuentoriu[m] eoru[m] que in operibus Gersonis continentur.

Frequently found with a fourth part printed by Martin Flach, the younger, in 1502.

Colophon of vol. 1 reads: Prima pars operu[m] magistri Ioha[n]nis de Gerson sacraru[m] litteraru[m] doctoris resolutissimi christianissimiq[ue], [com]plectens tratactus fidem ac p[otes]tatem eccl[es]iastica[m] co[n]cerne[n]tes, finit feliciter Anno d[omi]nice natiuitatis. M.cccc.xciiij. Idib[us] dece[m]br[is].

Vol. 1: [51], [1], [218] leaves (leaf [1] and last blanks); vol. 2: [258] leaves (last blank); vol. 3: [360] leaves.

Vol. 1 signatures: a-b⁶ c-e⁸ f⁶ g-i⁸ k⁶ l-t⁸⁶̇ v⁸ x-2a⁶⁸̇ 2b⁸ 2c⁶ 2d-2g⁸ (2g8 blank).

Vol. 2 signatures: A⁸ B-2F⁸⁶̇ 2G-2H⁸ 2I⁶ 2K-2N⁸ (2N8 blank).

Vol. 3 signatures: 2a-2h⁸⁶̇ 2i-2k⁸ 2l⁶ 2m-2n⁸ 2o⁶ 2p-2q⁸ 2r⁶ 2s⁸ 2t⁶ 2v-2x⁸ 2y⁶ 2z-Aa⁸ Bb⁶ Cc-Dd⁸ Ed⁶ Ff⁸ Gg-Hh⁶ Ii⁸ Kk⁶ Ll⁸ Mm⁶ Nn-Oo⁸ Pp⁶ Qq⁸ Rr⁶ Ss-Tt⁸ Vv⁶ Xx-Zz⁸ 2A-2D⁶⁸̇ .

"Inventarium" signatures: A-B⁸ C-F⁶⁸̇ G⁸ (G8 blank).

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. 53 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 213 (230) x 135 (142) mm.; col. width: 65 mm. Printed marginalia. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation and catchwords.

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 (from the 1488 Strasbourg ed.) 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 left hand and a shield (showing the seven planets and with a winged heart on which is inscribed a tau) slung over his right arm. In the background, a castle is to Gerson's left and a tree to his right. Cf. Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois, no. 4104.

"Epistola Io. gerson ad fratre[m]" and 17 hexameters describing the woodcut illustration plus "Co[m]pendiosa laus" on leaf a2.

Vol. 1 has leaf q3 signed p3.

Local Notes:

Library's copy imperfect: vols. 2-3 wanting.

Leaf size (vol. 1): 298 x 212 mm.

Rubrication (vol. 1): Initials supplied in red.

Library's copy has the "Inventarium" bound in front of vol. 1 ([51, [1] leaves).

Vol. 1 has the autograph of Henry Charles Lea, dated 1869, and two early ownership inscriptions on t.p.: "Liber Magistri Arnolfi [illegible] de Mergenthem [illegible] Argentini [com]p[ar]at[us] Anno Salutis 1494" and "Sum D. Ottonis [illegible]." Early ms. notes in Latin on margins of leaves g7-8, h1, and k2-4; illegible ms. note on lower margin of leaf e8 verso; English ms. note on leaf l6, probably by Lea.

Vol. 1 has a bookseller's description of another ed. of this title pasted on front pastedown.

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

Vol. 1 bound in early vellum over boards; blind tooled with four fillet borders and floral designs; remains of two metal and leather clasps; three raised bands on spine; single endbands. Author's name written on fore-edge and top edge; title written on front cover.

Library's copy has numerous wormholes, some affecting text, primarily in early gatherings and covers.

Cited in:

Goff G-189

BM 15th cent. I, p. 152 (IB.2178)

BSB-Ink. G-186

GW 10717

ISTC no. UKBYIG00189000-E

Schreiber, W.L. Handbuch (3. Aufl.) 4104

OCLC:

249397713