De partibus aedium
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: De partibus aedium
Classmark: Strong Room for. 4to 1494/GRA
Creator(s): Grapaldi, Francesco Mario (1465?-1515)
Additional creator(s): Ugoleto, Angelo (1486-1501) (Printer)
Related people: Ugoleto, Angelo
Publisher: Angelus Vgoletus Parmensis impressor; Angelo Ugoleto
Publication city: [Parma]
Date(s): [1494]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [124] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35731
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007633589705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-f⁸ g⁶ h-p⁸ q⁶.
Printer from colophon.
Colophon on q5v reads: Angelus Vgoletus Parmensis impressor.
The date of publication is derived from a note by the author in the preface of the second edition of 1501 (see BMC).
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Woodcut printer's mark on q6r with the monogram AV.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ig00349000.
Indexed in: Hain 7868; BMC VII 945-946 (IA.30356); Goff G349.
Features
Written in ink manuscript on the lower cover, inverted, JTE LIBER.
Written in eighteenth-century ink manuscript on the upper cover, now indistinct, are details of place of publication and printer.
In pencil manuscript on the verso of the second front flyleaf are notes in French, eighteenth- and nineteenth-century, giving details of the edition and bibliographic references.
In pencil manuscript on the verso of the first front flyleaf are notes, twentieth-century, giving details of the edition and contents.
Written in pencil manuscript at the top of the the verso of the second front flyleaf is a price: £15:15.
Major initials supplied in black ink manuscript throughout.
Bindings
Late-fifteenth-century pasteboard binding flush with the text block. There are two leather sewing supports on the upper and lower covers. Written in eighteenth-century ink manuscript directly on the upper cover, now indistinct, are details of the place of publication and printer. Written in ink manuscript directly onto the lower cover, inverted: JTE LIBER. Written directly onto the spine in black ink manuscript is the author's name: Grapaldus. Part of the head of the spine has been lost and there is some damage to the outer edge of the upper cover. The book is fragile and is preserved in a box. Size: 195 x 156mm. Leaf size: 195 x 150mm.
Access and usage
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