Vita scholastica
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Vita scholastica
Classmark: Strong Room for. 8vo 1497/BON
Creator(s): Bonvesin da la Riva (1250-1314?)
Additional creator(s): Alyate, Alexandre (Publisher); Marchant, Guy (Printer); Middelton, M F (Former owner)
Related people: Alyate, Alexandre; Marchant, Guy; Middelton, M. F
Publisher: pro Alexandro Alyate de Mediolano; Guy Marchant, for Alexander Alyate
Publication city: Impressum Parisius [Paris]
Date(s): Anno domini M.cccc.lxxxxvii. Die xiiii. Marcii. [14 March 1497/98]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [18] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35759
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007626929705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-c⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on c6v reads: Impressum Parisius pro Alexandro Alyate de Mediolano commorante ante collegiu[m] Nauarre. Anno domini M.cccc.lxxxxvii. Die xiiii. Marcii.
Printed with 36 long lines to a full page.
Woodcut initials.
Woodcut mark of Alexandre Alyate in red on the title page (a1r).
On the verso of the title page (a1v) is a woodcut of a monk instructing young scholars.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib01027300.
Features
Ink manuscript notes, probably in the hand of M.F. Middelton, on the front flyleaf referring to Edmund Fry's "Pantographia". Also, in the same hand on modern blank pages at the end bound after the text, notes headed "Early Printing".
An engraving of an eighteenth-century Dame school is pasted on the verso of the front free endpaper.
A cutting from Douglas Jerrold's Magazine is pasted on the recto of the front flyleaf.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of brown calf and marbled paper over pasteboard. The marbled paper features the spot pattern in red, yellow, blue and cream. The spine has four raised bands with blind-tooled double fillets to either side of each. Gold-tooled on a pared dark red leather lettering piece in the second panel are the words: Vita Scholastic [sic]. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine is the date: 1497. The pastedowns are of plain brown paper. Size: 180 x 127mm. Leaf size: 174 x 120mm.
Provenance
Book label with M.F. Middelton printed in italics on the front pastedown.
Pencil manuscript accession number 3507 on the verso of the front flyleaf. Date of accession to the Library of the University of Leeds can be identified as 9 March 1921. The book was purchased from vendor J. Miles for £2.17.0 with money from the Education fund and a donation of £2.2.0 from Mr Woodward.
Access and usage
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Profile: Marmaduke Middelton (1867-1947)
Biography of Marmaduke Francis Middelton, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.