[Sophologium]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Sophologium]
Classmark: BC Incunabula/RAM
Creator(s): Legrand, Jacques (1365-1415)
Additional creator(s): Reyser, Georg (1504) (Printer); Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787-1854) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Reyser, Georg; Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Printer of Henricus Ariminensis (Georg Reyser?)
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): [about 1476]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [190] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/279830
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008390129705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a-z⁸ A⁶].
Imprint from ISTC.
Also recorded as [about 1474-79] and [about 1477].
Colophon on leaf 189v reads: Sophilogium editum a fratre Iacobo magni de Parisius.ordinis heremitarum sancti Augu. finit feliciter.
Printed with 40 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00042000.
Indexed in: Hain no. 10469; British Museum IB.908 (part 1, p.81).
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations in black in manuscript, fifteenth-century.
There are notes in black ink manuscript and pencil manuscript on the front and back pastedowns giving details of the edition.
Major initials supplied and decorated in red.
Capital strokes, paragraph markers and underlinings supplied in red.
Wanting the first and last blank leaves.
Some worm damage.
Some water damage.
Bindings
Binding of half pigskin over wooden boards. The pigskin on the upper and lower covers is blind-tooled with panels of double fillets containing repeating patterns of flowers and stylised foliage and two roses at the head and tail. The spine has three raised bands with blind-tooled double fillets to either side of each. In the first panel is a papel label with indistinct writing in early ink manuscript. The book is fastened with two decorative metal clasps, the catch on the upper board. There is some damage to the head and tail of the spine revealing the endbands. Size: 292 x 215mm. Leaf size: 271 x197mm.
Bound with 1 other publication. Volume contents: 1. Rampegolo, A: Biblia Aurea, 1476. -- 2. Le Grand, J: Sophologium, c. 1476.
Provenance
Book label of Georgius Kloss, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum on the front pastedown. Georg Kloss's library was disposed of by Sotheby's in 1835.
Two numbers are written at the top left hand corner of the front pastedown. In black ink manuscript: 220. In red pencil manuscript: 101.
Cutting from a French sale catalogue 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.
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