Salemonis ecclesiae Constantiensis ep[iscop]i glossae ex illustrissimis collectae auctoribus incipiunt foeliciter
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Salemonis ecclesiae Constantiensis ep[iscop]i glossae ex illustrissimis collectae auctoribus incipiunt foeliciter
Other titles: Salemonis ecclesiae Constantiensis episcopi glossae ex illustrissimis collectae auctoribus incipiunt foeliciter; Glossae; Liber glossarum; Abavus maior
Classmark: BC Incunabula q/SAL
Creator(s): Salomo Bishop of Constance (860-20)
Additional creator(s): Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Monastery of SS. Ulrich and Afra
Publication city: [Augsburg]
Date(s): [about 1474]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [288] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/114307
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008143969705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a¹² b-o¹⁰ p⁸ q-z¹⁰ A-E¹⁰ F⁸].
Imprint from ISTC.
Title from caption at incipit on leaf [a2r].
Compendium of Latin glossaries arranged in two alphabets traditionally, but wrongly, ascribed to Salemo Episcopus Constantiensis, based primarily upon the Liber glossarum and Abavus maior: see BN cat. des incun., S-52.
Introductory letter on [a2r].
Printed in two columns with 55 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces, no guide letters.
Large ornamental woodcut initials throughout.
The first leaf [a1] is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. is00021000.
Indexed in: Goff S21; Klebs 877.1; BMC II 340; Schullian 414.
Features
Signatures have been supplied at the bottom right of rectos in ink manuscript.
The ornamental woodcut initials have been coloured in red, yellow, green, blue and black.
Other major initials supplied in red.
Capital strokes, paragraph markers and underlinings supplied in red.
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century German binding of pigskin over thick wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-stamped with a border and frame of triple fillets. The central panel contains lines of diagonal triple fillets. The spine has five raised bands. In the first panel is a paper lettering piece with words in black ink manuscript: Glossæ Salomonis Ep. Constantiensis. Written directly onto the spine in black ink manuscript in the third panel is the number: 179. Written directly onto the spine in black ink manuscript in the fourth panel is the number: 95. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps with pigskin straps catching on the upper cover. The metalwork on the clasps is decorated with a flower motif. There is evidence of metal furniture having once been attached to the upper and lower covers in the form of a central diamond-shaped boss and cornerpieces. There is also evidence of two lettering pieces having been attached to the top of the upper cover. Red leather
tabs on the fore-edge mark each letter of the alphabet. Watermarks on the front and back pastedowns of a bull's head with a staff surmounted by a flower. Size: 426 x 310mm. Leaf size: 407 x 286mm.
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
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