Opuscula beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Ca[n]tuarie[n]sis ordinis Sancti Benedicti
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Type of record: Book
Title: Opuscula beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Ca[n]tuarie[n]sis ordinis Sancti Benedicti
Other titles: Opuscula beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Cantuariensis ordinis Sancti Benedicti
Classmark: BC Incunabula/ANS/1
Creator(s): Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109)
Additional creator(s): Honorius of Autun (1080-1156) (Other); Amerbach, Johannes (1430-1513) (Printer); Martinus, Jacobus (Former owner); Hoff, Thomas (Former owner); Hofer, David (Former owner); Saulnier, Nicolas (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Honorius; Amerbach, Johannes; Martinus, Jacobus; Hoff, Thomas; Hofer, David; Saulnier, Nicolas; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Johann Amerbach
Publication city: [Basel]
Date(s): [not after 1497]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [208] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/112100
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008523189705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A-B⁸ a-z⁸ [et]⁸.
Imprint from ISTC.
Included in the text is the medieval geography De imagine mundi.
Printed in two columns with 49 or 50 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia00761000.
Indexed in: BMC III 759 (IA 37512).
Features
Occasional marginal annotations and manicules in black and red ink manuscript, late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century.
The major initials on a1r and a1v have been supplied in blue and decorated in red with pen ornamentation extending down the side of the text.
Other major initials supplied and decorated alternately in red and blue.
Paragraph markers supplied in red and blue with capital strokes in red.
Titles have been gone over in red ink.
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century binding of full pigskin over wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of fillets. The outer border contains a repeating pattern of curving lines and the central panel is blind-tooled with styllised foliage and an interlace design. The spine has three raised bands and in the first panel are the remains of a lettering piece. The book is fastened with a decorative metal clasp with leather strap catching on the upper cover. There is some worm damage to the covers. The book is preserved in an oak and pigskin case. Size: 218 x 150mm. Leaf size: 204 x 144mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript, seventeenth-century, at the bottom of the recto of the front free endpaper: Iacobi Martini ex dono Thomæ Hoff: an: [15]86[?]. nunc M: Davidis Hoferi Mulhusini. 1623.
Inscription in black ink manuscript, probably eighteenth-century, at the head of the recto of the front free endpaper, possibly: Ex libr. ?Jo[hann]is Paulinus [...].
A note in French in black ink manuscript on the front pastedown identifies a former owner: Nicolas Saulnier.
Inscription in black ink manuscript, nineteenth-century, at the head of the recto of the front free endpaper, crossed out and now mostly indecipherable, but possibly: Ex libris Pet[...] 1880.
Notes in Latin in black ink manuscript on the back pastedown, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.
Notes in pencil manuscript on the back pastedown, twentieth-century, giving details of the edition.
Small blue and white armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown, pasted over the small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield, with the second bookplate added after that date.
Access and usage
Access
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