[a1r] Turrecremata, Johannes de: [Preface addressed to] Pius II, Pont. Max. Incipit: ‘[B]eatissimo patri et clementissimo domino Pio secundo . . . Perscrutanti mihi studiose psalmorum librum ...’ [a2v] Explicit: ‘... qui non solum auctoritate sed etiam ingenio et sapientia prestantissimus haberis.’
[a3r] Turrecremata, Johannes de: Expositio in Psalmos. ‘Psalmus primus in quo describitur processus in beatitudinem'.’ Incipit: ‘[B]eatus vir qui non abiit) a via recta recedendo (in consilio impiorum) prauis eorum machinationibus consentiendo ...’ [v7r] Explicit: ‘... omnis spiritus sive angelicus sive humanus laudet Dominum. Amen.’ See Kaeppeli III 24-42, no. 2734; Stegmüller, Repertorium biblicum, no. 5003.
[v7r] Colophon: ‘Reverendissimi cardinalis Sancti Sixti Expositio brevis et utilis super toto Psalterio: Romę impressa die quarta mensis Octobris, per honorabilem virum magistrum Udalricum Gallum de Bienna, anno Domini Millesimoquadringentesimoseptuagesimo. Laus Deo.’
[v8r] [Printer's register]. ‘Registrum huius libri.’
Imprint:
Rome
Ulrich Han
4°
Secundo folio: a2r quasi de obstrusis favicellis
4 Oct. 1470
Collation:
[a–c10 d12 e–m10 n12 o10 p12 q–t10 v8]. Spaces left blank for initials.
References:
Source: Bodleian
ISTC: it00517000
HC (+ Addenda) *15695;
Goff T‑517;
BMC IV 21;
Pr 3341;
BSB‑Ink T‑545; CIBN T‑373; Sheppard 2660. Microfiche: Unit 8: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part II, PI 90.
Copies:
T-270(1)
Copy
Wanting [a3], in place of which is bound a copy of the first leaf of the text of the edition of Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 4 Apr. 1478 (T‑275).
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled mottled calf, with imprint information stamped in gold on two rectangular red leather labels pasted to the head of the spine. ‘113' in brown ink within a circle printed in black ink on an octagonal paper label pasted to the tail of the spine. Red-edged leaves, marbled pastedowns.
Size: 294 × 210 × 47 mm.
Size of leaf: 284 × 189 mm.
Early manuscript signatures partially visible. Occasional marginal early ‘nota' marks in brown ink.
On [a1r] an eight-line initial ‘B' is supplied in blue within a square ground of red pen-work decoration with extensions into the margin. Other initials are supplied in red or blue with violet or red pen-work decoration; red or blue paragraph marks.
Provenance: Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853); sale (1830), lot 1084.
Purchased at the Renouard sale for £2. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1830), 23.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 1Q 4.21.
