LostManuscripts
Host Volume
Jean Gerson
Opera, prima pars
ISTC ig00189000; GW 10717
Strassburg: Martinus Flaccus, iunior (ex officina), 1494
Leather on boards, rebacked, sewn on four thongs. The same pattern on both boards: a rectangle formed by a repeated thin stamp of vegetation (Gibson, stamp 88), within which diagonal double fillets form a diaper pattern, in which sit two repeated ornaments: one a rectangle placed as a diamond, apparently an enthroned and nimbed Christ Child the crucifix resting on his left shoulder (Gibson, stamp 89); the other a triangle of flowing leaves (Gibson, stamp 90). Ker identified these stamps as localisable to Oxford [Pastedowns, sub no. 29]. Moreover, thanks to the work of Graham Pollard, 'The
Oxford
1502--1513
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POxBo record.