Francisci Marii Grapaldi De partibus aedium libellus : cum additamentis emendatissimus
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Type of record: Book
Title: Francisci Marii Grapaldi De partibus aedium libellus : cum additamentis emendatissimus
Other titles: De partibus aedium
Classmark: Cookery D/GRA
Creator(s): Grapaldi, Francesco Mario (1465?-1515)
Additional creator(s): Ugoleto, Angelo (1486-1501) (Printer); Hardwicke, Philip Yorke Earl of (1690-1764) (Former owner); Leigh, Blanche Legat (Former owner)
Related people: Ugoleto, Angelo; Hardwicke, Philip Yorke; Leigh, Blanche Legat
Publisher: [Angelus Ugoletus]
Publication city: [Parma]
Date(s): 1501
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [12], 132 leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/118517
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008687579705181
Collection group(s): Cookery Collection
Description
Signatures: A-B⁶ a-p⁸ q-r⁶.
Place of printing and name of printer suggested by Comolli on the basis of type comparison with the first edition ([Parma] : Angelus Vgoletus Parmensis impressor, [1494]). Fowler gives the name of the printer as Francesco Ugoleto on the basis of type comparison with the third edition ([Parma] : Franciscus Vgoletus Parmensis impressit, 1506). F. Ugoletus (active after 1504) was the successor to A. Ugoletus (active 1486-1501); cf. Norton; BM STC Italian 1465-1600, p. 972.
Printed foliation at the top right of text on rectos.
Leaves 61 and 69 are numbered 91 and 71 respectively.
Leaves [11], [110-111] and [113] are foliated in Roman numerals.
Ornamental woodcut initials of different sizes.
With index on A2r-B5r.
Indexed in: Panzer VIII, p. 220, no. 2.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, early sixteenth-century.
This copy is wanting leaf A1.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century binding of red goatskin over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border of double fillets with ornamentation to either side and a frame of double fillets with ornamentation inside and a fleuron at each of the outer corners. The spine has four raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel within a border of fillets are the words: Grapaldus De partibus aedium. Each of the other panels are blind-tooled with a border of fillets containing a central motif of stylised foliage with acorns surrounded by spots and further ornamentation at each corner. The board edges are gold-tooled with the same repeating pattern as the border. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring a combination of the comb and curl patterns in red, orange, green, blue and cream. The book has gilt edges. Size: 202 x 150mm. Leaf size: 195 x 138mm.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown with the name: Philip Lord Hardwicke Baron of Hardwicke in ye County of Gloucester [Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764)].
Book label of The University Library Leeds on the recto of the front free endpaper: The Blanche Leigh Collection of Cookery Books. The gift of Mrs Leigh 1939.
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