Repertorium in postillam famosi et egregii doctoris fratris Nicolai de Lyra super ve[tus] [et] no[vum] testa[mentum]
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Type of record: Book
Title: Repertorium in postillam famosi et egregii doctoris fratris Nicolai de Lyra super ve[tus] [et] no[vum] testa[mentum]
Other titles: Repertorium in postillam Nicolai de Lyra super Vetus et Novum Testamentum; Repertorium in postillam famosi et egregii doctoris fratris Nicolai de Lyra super vetus et novum testamentum; Repertorium alphabeticum
Classmark: Strong Room for. 4to 1494/LYR
Creator(s): Nicholas, of Lyra commentator (1270-1349)
Additional creator(s): Koberger, Anton (1440-1513) (Printer); Hargrove, Charles (1840-1918) (Donor)
Related people: Koberger, Anton; Hargrove, Charles
Publisher: Anthonij Koberger Ciuis Nuermbergens[is] impressum; Anton Koberger
Publication city: [Nuremberg]
Date(s): xviiij Aprilis. Anno d[omi]ni[a]e incarnat[ion]is Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimoquarto. [19 April 1494]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [156] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35755
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007633749705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A-T⁸ V⁴.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on V3v reads: Repertoriu[m] summa cum diligentia auscultatu[m] ac solertia [et] impensis famosi necno[n] industrioso viri Anthonij Koberger Ciuis Nurembergen[sis] impressum. in postillam excellentissimi ac doctissimi viri fratris Nicolai de Lyra: seraphici ordinis sancti Francisci sup[er] ve[tus] [et] no[vum] testa[mentum] finit feliciter.xviiij Aprilis Anno d[omi]ni[a]e incarnat[ion]is Millesimo quadringentesimo nonagesimoquarto.
Printed in two columns with 46 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. in00150000.
Indexed in: Hain *10399.
Features
This copy is missing the final blank leaf.
Bindings
Binding of full calf over new wooden boards, rebacked. Older calfskin has been retained on the upper and lower covers both of which are blind-tooled with a border of double fillets and a repeating pattern of small triangles. The new spine has five raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Nicolaus de Lyra - Repert. in postill. Gold-tooled in the fourth panel is the date: 1494. Size: 242 x 180mm. Leaf size: 229 x 168mm.
Provenance
An early inscription in black ink manuscript on the title page reads: 1494 Pro Conuentu Znoymensi Frum Min: [...]. The book was once in the possession of the Franciscan Convent in the Moravian town of Znojmo (Znaim), now in the Czech Republic.
At the top of the front pastedown is a printed Yorkshire College Library label detailing library borrowing terms and retained from a previous binding.
At the bottom of the front pastedown is a printed label recording the presentation of the book to the Library of the Yorkshire College in 1892 by the Rev. Charles Hargrove.
Library stamp of The Yorkshire College on the tail-edge.
Access and usage
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Profile: Charles Hargrove (1840-1918)
Biography of Charles Hargrove, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.