[Homiliae XXI, interprete Petro Balbo]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Homiliae XXI, interprete Petro Balbo]
Classmark: Strong Room for. 4to 1479/CHR
Creator(s): John Chrysostom, Saint (407)
Additional creator(s): Balbi, Pietro (1399-1479) (Other); Firth, James Digby (Donor)
Related people: Balbi, Pietro; Firth, James Digby
Publisher: [Fratres Vitae Communis]
Publication city: [Brussels]
Date(s): 1479
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [237] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35722
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007633349705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a-t¹² u¹⁰].
Imprint from ISTC.
Colophon in verse on [u10r] reads: Doctor inauratus qui dicitur. omeliarum Viginti vnius nobile finit opus Reddimus vnde deo grates p[er] secula. de quo Cunctoru[m] fluitant fortina facta viru[m] 1479.
Prefatory letter by Petrus Balbus.
Printed with 27 long lines to a full page.
The first leaf a1 is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ij00285000.
Indexed in: Goff J285.
Features
Inscription in French in black ink manuscript on the verso of the front free endpaper giving details of the edition.
Written in pencil manuscript on the verso of the front free endpaper: See Burnet page 176.
Headlines supplied inconsistently in early black ink manuscript.
Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript throughout text.
Signatures added in early ink manuscript at the bottom right of versos, mostly cropped.
Major initials supplied in blue.
Capital strokes supplied in red.
This copy is missing the first blank leaf.
Some water damage to the upper corners of leaves 1-12.
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century binding of dark brown calf over wooden boards, possibly originating in the Low Countries. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a design of diagonal fillets forming a cross and small stamps in a frame, now much worn. A nail at the head of the lower board suggests that the book was once chained. Nailed to the upper board is a vellum lettering piece with title and author in black and red ink manuscript protected by a layer of translucent horn with thin strips of metal forming a frame. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps catching on the upper boards and with catches and straps restored. The book also has protective edge guards nailed to the tail corners of the board edges. Red leather tabs attached to the fore-edge mark sections of the text. The book was rebacked and the clasps mended in 2000. The new spine has three raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: John Chrysostom Homiliae XXI. Gold-tooled
at the base of the spine is the date: 1479. The item is housed in a protective slipcase. Size: 215 x 163mm. Leaf size: 208 x 140mm.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of the University of Leeds on the front pastedown with a book label: Presented to the University of Leeds by Mr J. Digby Firth.
Pencil manuscript accession number 46000 on the verso of the front free endpaper beneath a University of Leeds armorial bookstamp. Date of accession to the Library of the University of Leeds can be identified as 31 January 1940.
Access and usage
Access
Access to this material is unrestricted.
On our website
Profile: James Digby Firth (1877-1968)
Biography of James Digby Firth, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.