[Quaestiones in S. Thomam]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Quaestiones in S. Thomam]
Classmark: BC Incunabula q/HEN
Creator(s): Heinrich von Gorkum (1386-1431)
Additional creator(s): Fyner, Konrad (1472-1488) (Printer); Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787-1854) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, 1225?-1274; Fyner, Konrad; Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Conrad Fyner
Publication city: [Esslingen]
Date(s): [not after 13 May 1475]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [176] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/114259
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007754629705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a-e⁸ f¹⁰ g-i⁸ kl⁶ m-p⁸ qr⁶ s-x⁸ y⁶ z⁸].
Imprint from ISTC.
The Copenhagen copy was bought on 13 May 1475 (Madsen) and one of the Vienna Schottenstift (Benedikt) copies was rubricated in the same year (Hübl).
Printed in two columns with 60 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ih00023000.
Indexed in: Hain 7806; Goff H23.
Features
Two numbers are written at the top left hand corner of the front pastedown. In black ink manuscript: 336. In red pencil manuscript: 506.
Major initials supplied in red.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century German binding of pigskin over wooden boards. The upper cover is blind-tooled with a border and frame of multiple fillets containing lozenge- and oval-shaped tools of lions rampant and fleur-de-lys. The central panel is decorated with rows of diagonal fillets containing tools of lions rampant and the Lamb of God. At the top of the upper cover are two vellum lettering pieces with H XI and the title of the work in fifteenth-century black ink manuscript. The lower cover is blind-tooled with a border, frame and panels of multiple fillets containing circular, oval, square and lozenge-shaped tools including fleurs-de-lys, lions rampant and the Lamb of God. The spine has five raised bands. In the first panel is a paper lettering piece with writing in black ink manuscript, probably eighteenth-century: D. Henrici de Gorickem Qu: Theol. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps with pigskin straps with the catch on the upper cover, and there is evidence of metal
furniture in the form of circular and square bosses having once been attached to the corners and centre of the upper and lower boards. There are four red leather tabs on the fore-edge marking sections of the text. Bound at the front and back of the text are several stubs of rubricated vellum manuscript and a leaf of the same is visible beneath the back pastedown. Size: 428 x 310mm. Leaf size: 405 x 285mm.
Provenance
Written in black ink manuscript on the first blank leaf to immitate print: liber sco[rum] ap[osto]lo[rum] petri et pauli Erffordie. The book was possibly once in the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in Erfurt, Thuringia, Germany.
Book label of Georgius Kloss, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum on the front pastedown. Georg Kloss's library was disposed of by Sotheby's in 1835.
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
Access
Access to this material is unrestricted.
On our website
Research spotlight: The Brotherton Ovid
Learn about the remarkable Brotherton Collection copy of the works of Ovid, printed in Parma in 1477. Discover who owned the books, and who might have added the hundreds of marginal annotations and colourful illustrations.
Profile: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss
Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss was a former owner of three incunabula (books printed in Europe before 1501) kept in Special Collections in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds. The books contain the works of the Roman poet Ovid and were printed by Stephanus Coralllus in Parma in 1477.