Turrecremata, Expositio super toto psalterio, [Basel, not after 1482], contemporary calf

TURRECREMATA, JOHANNES DE

Expositio super toto psalterio. [Basel: Johann Amerbach, not after 1482]

Chancery folio (271 x 193mm.), 124 leaves, double column, 40 lines plus headline, gothic type, initial spaces, contemporary calf (with no tooling) over rounded wooden boards, stub of a single pink alum-tawed strap, last few leaves with a small area of damp-staining, a few blank leaves excised at beginning and at end, spine covering torn with slight loss at head and foot, pastedowns lifted

There is no catchplate on this volume, though there is the trace of a metal fixture in the centre of the lower cover, which may have been the pin for a long strap on the binding, rather than a clasp. Long strap bindings were common in romanesque bindings but were supplanted by straps with hooks and catchplates by the end of the fifteenth century.

LITERATURE:

ISTC it00530000

PROVENANCE:

"Sanctus Sixtus", early manuscript note on flyleaf; "I.W.", initials at head of first leaf