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Contenta in hoc volvmine : Pimander. Mercurij Trismegisti liber de de [sic] sapientia et potestate dei. Asclepius. Eiusdem Mercurij liber de voluntate diuina. Item Crater Hermetis A Lazarelo Septempedano. Petri Portae Monsterolensis dodecastichon ad lectorem. [12 line poem] Vale.
1505
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Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
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- Related Name
- Lefèvre d'Étaples, Jacques, -1536
- Hermes, Trismegistus
- Language
- Latin
- Subject
- Manuscript waste
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Contenta in hoc volvmine : Pimander. Mercurij Trismegisti liber de de [sic] sapientia et potestate dei. Asclepius. Eiusdem Mercurij liber de voluntate diuina. Item Crater Hermetis A Lazarelo Septempedano. Petri Portae Monsterolensis dodecastichon ad lectorem. [12 line poem] Vale.
- Call Number
- EX 2686.345.507
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/qv33s363j
- Language
- Latin
- Date Created
- 1505
- Extent
- 81 (i.e. 82) leaves ; 20 cm.
- Provenance
- In mss. on first titlepage: "Liber domui castrimarie prope Dulmaniam ordinis Carthusiensis.'
- Source Acquisition
- Purchase; 1944.
- References
- Renouard 1505 no.3.
- Schreiber no.4.
- E. P. Goldschmidt, Gothic and Renaissance Bindings, Vol I, p. 249.
- E. P. Goldschmidt, Catalogue forty-one. [Cover-title:] Books and manuscripts, ancient and mediaeval literature (London, 1936), no. 112.
- Rights Statement
- No Known Copyright
- Notes
- Signatures: a-h⁸ i-l⁶.
- Colophon: Crateris Hermetis adiecti Pimandro & Asclepio Mercurij Trismegisti finis. Parisiis in officina Henrici Stephani recognitoribus me[n]dasq[ue] ex ofcina eleuntibus Ioa[n]ne Solido Cracouiensi. & Volgacio Pratensi anno domini saluatoris M.D.V.Cale[n]dis Aprilis.
- Spaces with guide letters left for capitals.
- Errors in foliation: 26 as 29, 29 as 26, 30-34 as 20,21,22,22; 35 upside down 32; 36-39 as 26-29; 53 as 35; 67 omitted; 68-69 repeated, 76 as 68; 77 as 78; 90 as 82.
- The poem on the title page is by Peter Porta, a corrector at the Estienne shop, who was assisted by Jan Schilling (Ioannes Solidus) and Wolfgang von Mart (Volgatius Pratensis), whose names are recorded in the Colophon.
- Binding Note
- Ex copy: Binding includes fragments of breviary, France, ? early 15th cent.
- Bound by the Carthusians at Wedderen, near Dülmen, Westphalia; in the lower panel of the front cover are 2 heart-shaped stamps containing letters "H" and "G", possibly the initials of the monk who bound the volume.
- Bound in 16th-century blind stamped calf over wooden boards; blind-stamped with fleurs de lys, griffins, etc.; spine title painted in black on red.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Manuscript waste
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 412
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Medieval and Renaissance Mediterranean Manuscripts
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/78ede22c-3840-4880-9b5b-efbea225a11d/manifest