Perez de Valentia, Commentaria in Psalmos, Valencia, 1484, old vellum over wooden boards

Jacobus Perez de Valentia

Commentaria in Psalmos. Valencia: [Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba and Gabriel Luis de Arinyo], 6 September 1484

Median folio (335 x 235mm.), 397 leaves (of 400), a⁸ b¹⁰ c⁸; a-v⁸ x¹⁰ y-z⁸ aa-ii⁸ ll⁸ mm⁶ A-I⁸ L⁸ M¹⁰; a¹² (tabula), double column, 50 lines plus headline, gothic type, woodcut initials, some neat early annotations in different hands, old wooden boards with modern half vellum and two new vellum straps with old catchplates, lacking a10 (end of index) and blank leaves a11-12, first leaf slightly soiled and repaired, occasional light damp-staining, some leaves slightly frayed at foredge, a few wormholes in index (with slight loss), boards wormed

A large crisp copy. This is the first Spanish printing of this commentary on the Psalms by the Augustinian bishop Jaime Pérez (c. 1408-1490). Although the printer is not named, a contract survives dated 31 July 1483 which states that Gabriel Luis de Arinyo sought the help of the converso Alfonso Fernández de Córdoba to complete the printing. Fernández had been condemned to death after leaving Valencia and Arinyo obtained a safe conduct for him to return to do the printing.

The binding was repaired in the mid-1970s but without trimming the paper.

LITERATURE:

ISTC ip00276000

PROVENANCE:

old lettering at head of upper cover, "[--]ar P Ff Nov"