[Grammatica]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Grammatica]
Classmark: BC Incunabula SER
Creator(s): Serpus, Franciscus
Additional creator(s): Cori, Bernardino de' (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: per Bernardinum de Choris de Cremona; Bernardinus de Choris, de Cremona
Publication city: Impressi Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Anno Domini.M.CCCCXCII. Die xix.Mensis Aprilis. [19 April 1492]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 72 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/104926
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008144019705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-i⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on i8r reads: Libelli Grammatices æditi Vincentiæ per Fra[n]ciscum Serpum : Ac Impressi Venetiis summa cura ac diligentia per Bernardinum de Choris de Cremona Anno Domini.M.CCCCXCII. Die xix.Mensis Aprilis.
Printed with 33 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. is00475600.
Indexed in: HR 14702; IBE 5241; IGI 8941; Voull(B) 4295; Sheppard 4300; Pr 5219.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or sixteenth century.
There are notes in Spanish in black ink manuscript, seventeenth-century, on leaf i8v.
Bindings
Binding of half white parchment and brown paper over pasteboard. On the parchment are large but faded and indistinct letters in gothic manuscript. Printed in black on the smooth spine are the words: serpus grammatica. - Venice. 1492. At the base of the spine is the Brotherton Collection stamp in black. Size: 220 x 160mm. Leaf size: 212 x 152mm.
Provenance
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
Access
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