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BERCHORIUS, Petrus (1290-1362). Liber bibliae moralis. [Cologne]: Bartholomäus de Unkel, [17th March] 1477.
Chancery 2o (287 x 205 mm). Collation: 1-2210 238 24-2510 2612 27-4110 426 4310. 426 leaves (including last blank). 39 lines, double column. Gothic type 1:103. 2- to 6-line initial spaces, rubricated with blue and red Lombard initials, opening initials with reserved decoration on red penwork infill and marginal extension, capital strokes and paragraph marks in red. (Light marginal staining.) 16th-century calf, elaborately tooled in blind (rebacked, portions of old spine laid down, lacks clasps, rubbed). Provenance: Weddern (near Dülmen, Westphalia), Carthusians (ownership inscription on colophon page) -- Charles Thomas-Stanford (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 4 April 1942 -- donated to SMS 1942.
Very tall copy of the first issue with the reading "sic e finis iohanis et p conseques oim aliar figurar biblie" in the 8th and 9th lines of the second column on the last page. BMC I,241 (IB. 3926); GW 3865; Hain *2797; Pr 1137; Voulliéme 226; Goff B-339.
Chancery 2o (287 x 205 mm). Collation: 1-2210 238 24-2510 2612 27-4110 426 4310. 426 leaves (including last blank). 39 lines, double column. Gothic type 1:103. 2- to 6-line initial spaces, rubricated with blue and red Lombard initials, opening initials with reserved decoration on red penwork infill and marginal extension, capital strokes and paragraph marks in red. (Light marginal staining.) 16th-century calf, elaborately tooled in blind (rebacked, portions of old spine laid down, lacks clasps, rubbed). Provenance: Weddern (near Dülmen, Westphalia), Carthusians (ownership inscription on colophon page) -- Charles Thomas-Stanford (bookplate) -- Estelle Doheny (morocco bookplate; purchased from A.S.W. Rosenbach, Philadelphia, 4 April 1942 -- donated to SMS 1942.
Very tall copy of the first issue with the reading "sic e finis iohanis et p conseques oim aliar figurar biblie" in the 8th and 9th lines of the second column on the last page. BMC I,241 (IB. 3926); GW 3865; Hain *2797; Pr 1137; Voulliéme 226; Goff B-339.