[De conservatione sanitatis]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [De conservatione sanitatis]
Other titles: Sequitur nunc libellus ipse de conservatione sanitatis: secundum ordinem alphabetum distinctus
Classmark: Strong Room for. 4to 1475/BEN
Creator(s): Benedict Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino
Additional creator(s): Lignamine, Johannes Philippus de (1420-) (Printer); Hardwicke, Philip Yorke Earl of (1690-1764) (Former owner)
Related people: Lignamine, Johannes Philippus de; Hardwicke, Philip Yorke
Publisher: Joannes Philippus de Lignamine; in domo nobilis uiri Iohannis Philippi de Lignamine messan[ensis]. S.D.N. familiaris hic libellus imp[re]ss[us] est; Johannes Philippus de Lignamine
Publication city: Rome
Date(s): 14 January 1475
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [140] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35721
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007631719705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a² b-i¹° k⁸ l-p¹°].
With additions by Joannes Philippus de Lignamine.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on [p9r] (leaf [139r]) reads: Rome : in domo nobilis uiri Iohannis Philippi de Lignamine messan[ensis]. S.D.N. familiaris hic libellus imp[re]ss[us] est. Anno d[omi]ni. M CCCC LXXV. Die XIIII mensis Ianuarii. Pont. Syxti IIII. Anno eius quarto.
Author's name suggested by ISTC.
Author's name also recorded as Benedictus Riguardatus.
Preceded by Lignamine's dedication to the Pope.
Printed with 22 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00313000.
Indexed in: Hain 11919; GW 3818.
Features
Written in ink manuscript on the recto of the front free endpaper: C. II.
The major initial S on leaf [8r] is supplied in blue and decorated in red and gold with pen ornamentation in red extending down the inner margin.
Painted in the margin at the bottom of leaf [8r] is an unidentified heraldic device with a shield enclosed in a green circle with blue ground with floral decoration either side in red, blue and green. The shield features two lions rampant in red holding between them a large flower upon which sits a bird, also in red.
Inscription in black ink manuscript on leaf [1r], late fifteenth- or sixteenth-century: S Paulus : Iustus aut[em] ex fide uiuit.
The major initials in the first half of the book are supplied in black ink, now faded.
Occasional marginal annotations and manicules.
Various manuscript inscriptions in pencil on the front pastedown and the recto and verso of the front free endpaper giving details of author, title and edition.
This copy is wanting the title page and the final blank leaf.
Some water damage.
The first two leaves have been restored.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century binding of vellum over pasteboard. The spine has five raised bands. In the first panel is a circular white label with pinked edges and a number in black ink manuscript: U. Sh. 2. 24. In the second panel are the remains of a pared brown leather lettering piece gold-tooled with fillets and the words: [D]e Ligna[...] : De conserv[...] sanita[...]. In the sixth panel is a fragment of a diamond-shaped library label bearing the number 188 in faded ink manuscript. Size: 226 x 155mm. Leaf size: 213 x 135mm.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown with the name Philip, Earl of Hardwicke [Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke (1690-1764)].
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