[Summa Theologica : Quatuor Partes] (v.4)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Summa Theologica : Quatuor Partes] (v.4)
Classmark: BC Incunabula q/ANT
Creator(s): Antoninus Saint, Archbishop of Florence (1389-1459)
Additional creator(s): Koberger, Anton (1440-1513) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Koberger, Anton; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Industria Antonij koberger incole Nurenbergen[sis]; Anton Koberger
Publication city: [Nuremberg]
Date(s): [1477-1479]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 4 volumes ([254], [323], [352, 320], [374] leaves)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/163611
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008795549705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
The four parts are dated: I) 17 October 1478; II) 10 October 1477; III) 26 January 1478; IV) 29 April 1479.
Imprint from colophon to part 4.
Colophon on the last printed leaf of part 4 reads: Industria Antonij koberger incole Nurenbergen[sis] taliter effigiata: et anno domini [et]c lxxix. penultima aprilis consiumata.
Printed in two columns with 59 lines to a full column.
No signatures.
Printed headlines.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia00871000.
Indexed in: Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) 1242; Gesamtkat.d.Wiegendr. 2186; Stillwell A776.
Features
On the first leaf of the text in each volume the first major initial is supplied in gold and colours with ornamentation featuring stylised foliage and flowers extending either down the margin or between the two columns of text. On the verso of the second printed leaf of volume 2 a smaller initial is supplied in gold and colours with ornamentation.
Other major initials supplied alternately in red and blue with some decorated in both colours.
Capital strokes supplied in red.
Paragraph markers supplied alternately in red and blue.
Bindings
The four volumes have eighteenth-century bindings of half sheepskin and brown paper over pasteboard. The paper is surface-coated and sprinkled with black ink. The spines have five raised bands with pared light brown lettering pieces in the second panels. The author's name and title of the work are stamped in black on each: volume 1: D'Antonini Prima pars summæ; volume 2: D'Antonini Secunda pars summæ; volume 3: D'Antonini Tertis pars summæ; volume 4: D'Antonini Quarta pars summæ. There is much wear to the boards and the spines of each book, especially at the head and tail revealing the endbands. At the base of each spine are the remains of a paper label with a library number written in ink manuscript, now indistinct, but likely to match the number written in black ink manuscript on the recto of the front free endpaper in each volume. The leaf edges are sprinkled red. Volume 1 - Size: 435 x 320mm. Leaf size: 418 x 300mm. Volume 2 - Size: 438 x 325mm. Leaf size: 418 x 300mm. Volume 3
- Size: 440 x 330mm. Leaf size: 420 x 300mm. Volume 4 - Size: 442 x 325mm. Leaf size: 420 x 300mm.
Provenance
Engraved bookplate on the front pastedown of each volume with the words: Ex Bibliotheca FF. Ord. Prædicat. Wratisl. ad S. Adalb.
Book label on the front pastedown of each volume: Aus der Bibliothek der Dominikaner zu Breslau. This is the bookplate of the library of the Dominicans at Breslau / Wrocław.
Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown of each volume. The books were 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.