Summa praedicantium (v.1)

Description

Signatures: volume 1: [a⁸ b¹⁰ c⁸ d¹⁰ e¹² f-z⁸ A-M⁸ N¹⁰ O⁶ P-S⁸ T⁶ V⁸ X⁶ Y⁸]; volume 2: [a¹⁰ b⁸ c⁸ d¹⁰ e⁶ f⁸ g⁸ h-i¹⁰ k¹² l-o¹⁰ p⁸ q-r¹⁰ st⁸ v⁶ x⁶ x-z⁸ A-L⁸ M⁶ N¹⁰ O-P⁸].


Title and imprint from ISTC.


Colophon to volume 1 on leaf 363v reads: Explicit prima pars su[mm]e p[re]dicantium [etcetera].


Colophon to volume 2 on leaf 323v reads: Explicit Su[m]ma predicantium fr[atr]is Ioh[ann]is de Bromyard. de ordine fratrum predicator[um]. Laus deo.


Printed in two columns with 53 lines to a full column.


Printed headings and marginalia.


Initial spaces, no guide-letters.


Leaves 1, 37 and 364 in volume 1 and leaves 1 and 324 in volume 2 are blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ij00260000.


Indexed in: BMC III 747; Goff J-260.

Features

Written on the front pastedown of each volume are notes in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century.


Written in ink manuscript beneath the colophon to volume 1 is a date: 1628.


Marginal annotations and manicules in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- to eighteenth-century, in both volumes.


The major initial on the recto of the first leaf of text in each volume is supplied and decorated in gold and colours with an ornamental border of stylised foliage and flowers extending along the bottom of the page. The major initial on the recto of the second leaf of text in volume 1 is also supplied and decorated in gold and colours.


Some other major intiials are supplied in red, blue and green and decorated with pen ornamentation.


Remaining initials are supplied alternately in red and blue.


Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.


Worm damage to the boards and the text block.


Bindings


Late-fifteenth-century German bindings of pigskin over wooden boards. The upper covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of triple fillets. Inside the frame to either side are rows of blind-tooled lozenges containing double-headed eagles. At the top and bottom of the frame is a repeating pattern of blind-tooled ornaments. The central panel is blind-tooled with a pattern of interlaced stylised foliage containing ornaments. Blind-tooled at the top of each cover is the title - volume 1: Prima pars su[m]me predicantium; volume 2: Secunda pars s[umm]e predicantium. The lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frames of triple fillets containing rows of lozenges with double-headed eagles and roses. The spines have four raised bands. Written directly onto the spine in the first panel of volume 1: Summa prædicantium. Ioan: de Bro[m]yard. Written directly onto the spine in the first panel of volume 2: Summa prædicantium. Jo. de Bromyard. The books have the remains of two
decorated metal clasps on the fore-edge with the catch on the upper cover. There is evidence of metal furniture in the form of a central lozenge-shaped boss and corner-pieces having one been attached to the upper and lower boards of both books. There is also evidence that the books were chained. Volume 1 - Size: 387 x 280mm. Leaf size: 362 x 258mm. Volume 2 - Size: 387 x 280mm. Leaf size: 364 x 258mm.

Provenance

Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto of the first blank leaf in each volume. The books were most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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