Iohannis Scoti subtilissimi doctoris theologi: in quartum librum sentenciarum opus anglicanum... [etc.]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Iohannis Scoti subtilissimi doctoris theologi: in quartum librum sentenciarum opus anglicanum... [etc.]
Other titles: Quaestiones in quartum librum Sententiarum
Classmark: BC Incunabula q/DUN
Related people: Crawshaw, Edward; Grey, Charles Hervey; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: C.W
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): [before 6 July 1474]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [290] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/113907
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007744839705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from ISTC.
The printer has been identified tentatively as Clas Wencker or Conrad Wolfach.
Printed in two columns with 51 lines to a full column.
No signatures.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. id00377000.
Indexed in: Goff D377; HC(Add) 6430 = H 6429; Pell 4462; Girard 173; Polain(B) 4339; IDL 1643; IBP 2000; IBE 2206; Sajó-Soltész 1217; Voull(B) 2187; Hubay(Augsburg) 733; Coll(U) 507; Madsen 1458; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 709; Sheppard 279, 280; Pr 342; BMC I 82; BSB-Ink D-312; GW 9084.
Features
Notes in black ink manuscript beneath the explicit on the final printed leaf giving bibliographic details of the edition.
The major initial on the recto of the first printed leaf is supplied and decorated in red and blue with pen ornamentation extending down the inner margin.
Major initials supplied in red.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century German binding of full dark brown calf over bevelled wooden boards, rebacked. The upper cover is blind-tooled with a frame of double fillets inside which are various circular and lozenge-shaped tools containing dragons, wyverns, lions, fleurs-de-lys, and also scrolls with gothic lettering. The central panel is decorated with rows of diagonal fillets containing fleurs-de-lys. The lower cover is blind-tooled with a frame of double fillets and the whole cover is decorated with circular and lozenge-shaped tools containing dragons, wyverns, lions, fleurs-de-lys stylised foliage and also scrolls with gothic lettering. The central panel is also decorated with two sets of diagonal double fillets to form a cross. The spine has five raised bands and gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Duns Scotus - Sentenciarum. The book has metal cornerpieces and the remains of two decorated metal clasps with the catch on the upper board. Size: 412 x 290mm. Leaf size: 390 x
280mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript at the head of the recto of the front free endpaper: Iste liber p[er]tinet Ecclesie Norinburgensi.
Autograph in black ink manuscript at the top right of the recto of the first printed leaf, possibly: S. Heise.
Bookplate on the front pastedown: Ex libris E. Crawshaw.
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: Ex libris Charles Hervey Hoare.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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On our website
Profile: Charles Hervey Grey (1875-1955)
Biography of Charles Hervey Grey, who is associated with early printed books held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
Profile: Edward Crawshaw (1842-1922)
Biography of Edward Crawshaw, who is associated with incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.