Consilia, quaestiones et allegationes
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Consilia, quaestiones et allegationes
Classmark: BC Incunabula quarto HOM
Creator(s): Homodeis, Signorolus de (1362)
Additional creator(s): Scinzenzeler, Ulrich (1450-1500?) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: Impressa Mediolani per Magistrum Uldericum Scinzenzeler; Uldericus Scinzenzeler
Publication city: [Milan]
Date(s): Anno domini.Mcccclxxxxvii.die.xv.Maij. [15 May 1497]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 242 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/114276
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007756189705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a⁸ b-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁶ [rum]⁶ A-E⁶ aa-ii⁶.
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on E5v reads: Expliciunt Consilia Questiones [et] allegationes famosissimi lewgum doctoris domini Segnoroli de Homedeis de Mediolano Militus ac Comitis Palatini dignissimi. Impressa Mediolani per Magistrum Uldericum Scinzenzeler. Anno domini.Mcccclxxxxvii.die.xv.Maij.
Printed in two columns with 75 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Beneath the colophon on E5v is a printer's mark with the monogram VS.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ih00319300.
Indexed in: HR 8795; IBE 2941; IBP 2848; IDL 2356; Pell Ms 6068 (6048); CIBN H-185; IGI 4804; Sack(Freiburg) 1862.
Features
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Binding of half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. The pigskin on both the upper and lower covers is blind-tooled with rows of fillets containing stylised foliage. The lower cover is also blind-tooled with rows of scrolls containing the word Maria. Written directly onto the upper board in black ink manuscript are the words: Consilia Signorol d. Homo. The spine has five raised bands with blind-tooled double fillets to either side of each. Written directly onto the spine in black ink manuscript in the first panel are the words: Consilia & Repertor: Segnorol. The other panels are blind-tooled with stylised foliage. Written in black ink manuscript on the fore-edge are the words: Consilia Signo de homo. There are the remains of red leather tabs on the fore-edge marking sections of the text. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps with pigskin straps catching on the upper board. There are stubs of rubricated vellum manuscript bound at the beginning and end of the book. The pigskin is worm damaged and wear to the tail of the spine reveals the endband. Size: 442 x 300mm. Leaf size: 422 x 280mm.
Provenance
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
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