Aemilii Probi viri clarissimi De vita excellentium liber incipit feliciter
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Aemilii Probi viri clarissimi De vita excellentium liber incipit feliciter
Other titles: Vitae excellentium imperatorum
Classmark: BC H de W/NEP
Related people: Howard de Walden, Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per. M. Nicolavm Ienson Venetiis opvs foeliciter impressvm est; Nicolaus Jenson
Publication city: [Venice]
Date(s): Anno a Christi incarnatione. M.CCCC.LXXI. VIII. idvs Martias. [8 March 1471]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [54] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/119855
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008691829705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
No signatures or foliation.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on leaf [53r] reads: Probi Aemilii De virorvm excellentivm vita per. M. Nicolavm Ienson Venetiis opvs foeliciter impressvm est anno a Christi incarnatione. M.CCCC.LXXI. VIII. idvs Martias.
Printed with 31 or 32 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC ic00915000.
Indexed in: Goff C915.
Features
Wanting the first and last blank leaves.
Bindings
Early twentieth-century binding of full dark brown goatskin over pasteboard by Riviere & Son whose name is gold-tooled on the turn-in at the bottom of the front pastedown. The binding is a facsimile of an English binding of about 1550 executed for Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, found on his copy of Platonis Convivium (Paris, 1543), formerly in the Old Royal Collection and now in the British Museum. The upper cover is gold-tooled with a triple fillet border containing an escutcheon enclosing the crest of the Earl of Leicester, a bear and ragged staff, with the monogram RD, modelled by Mary Houston. Each corner is gold-tooled with stylised foliage. The lower cover is decorated in similar fashion but for the crest. The spine has five raised bands and gold-tooled in the second panel is the name: Cornelius Nepos. Gold-tooled in the third panel is the date: 1471. The remaining panels are gold-tooled with a border of double fillets contining a central fleuron with a smaller fleuron at each
corner. The board edges are gold-tooled with a single fillet and the turn-ins with two fillets. The book has gilt edges. The book is preserved in a loose burgundy cover inside a mottled brown slipcase. Gold-tooled on the spine of the loose cover are the words: Cornelius Nepos 1471. Size: 277 x 199mm. Leaf size: 272 x 192mm.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, VIII Baron Howard de Walden (1880-1946), on the front pastedown.
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.
Access and usage
Access
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On our website
Profile: Thomas Evelyn Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden (1880-1946)
Biography of Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.