Sidonii apollinaris poema Aureum eiusdemq[ue] epistole
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Type of record: Book
Title: Sidonii apollinaris poema Aureum eiusdemq[ue] epistole
Other titles: Sidonii Apollinaris Poema aureum eiusdemque epistole; Poema Aureum eiusdemque epistole; Epistolae et poemata; Epistolae et carmina
Classmark: BC Incunabula SID
Creator(s): Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint (487)
Additional creator(s): Pio, Giovanni Battista (Commentator); Pio, Giovanni Battista (Editor); Torresanus, Andreas de Asula (1451-1529) (Publisher); Abbatibus, Johannes de (Publisher); Scinzenzeler, Ulrich (1450-1500?) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Sidonius Apollinaris, Saint, 431 or 432-approximately 487
Publisher: per magistrum Vldericum sci[n]zenzeler. Impensis uene rabilium dominorum Presbyteri Hyeronimi de Asula necnon Ioannis de abbatibus place[n]tini; Uldericus Scinzenzeler, for Hieronymus de Asula and Johannes de Abbatibus
Publication city: Impressum Mediolanni [Milan]
Date(s): Sub Anno domini. M.cccc.Lxxxxyii. Quarto Nonas maias. [4 May 1498]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 144 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/105131
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008144759705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁶ c-s⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on s8r reads: Impressum Mediolanni per magistrum Vldericum sci[n]zenzeler. Impensis uene rabilium dominorum Presbyteri Hyeronimi de Asula necnon Ioannis de abbatibus place[n]tini. Sub Anno domini.M.cccc.Lxxxxyii. Quarto Nonas maias.
Title from leaf a1r, the title page.
Edited and with commentary by Johannes Baptista Pius.
Prnted with 40 lines to a full page.
No headlines, foliation or catchwords.
Ornamental woodcut initials of various sizes.
Indexed in: ISTC no. is00494000.
Indexed in: BMC VI 773 (IB. 26778); Goff. Third census, S-494; Hain *1286; Pellechet 910.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations in black ink mansucript, early sixteenth-century.
Written in pencil manuscript on the back pastedown are a price and a date: 5/15/0. 8/11/20.
Some water damage and staining.
Some worm damage to the final leaves.
Bindings
Binding of full vellum over pasteboard. Gold-tooled on the smooth spine is a frame of decorated double fillets containing the words: Siido: Appol. Poema et epist. The leaf edges of the book are mottled red. Size: 300 x 220mm. Leaf size: 293 x 210mm.
Provenance
Cutting from a sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
Coloured 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
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