Commentarii
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Commentarii
Classmark: Strong Room for. fol. 1494 CAE
Creator(s): Hirtius, Aulus
Additional creator(s): Marlianus, Raimundus (1420-1475) (Other); Bologni, Girolamo (1454-1517) (Editor); Pinzi, Filippo (1490-1530) (Printer); Waldbott von Bassenheim, Counts (Former owner)
Publisher: Per Philippum de Pinciis Mantuanum; Philippus Pincius
Publication city: Impressum Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): Anno ab incarnatione domini. Mcccc.lxxxxiiii. Die uero xxy. octobris. [25 October 1494]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 134 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/35767
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007634179705181
Description
Signatures: a-q⁸ r⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on r5v reads: Impressum Venetiis per Philippum de Pinciis Mantuanum Anno ab incarnatione domini. Mcccc.lxxxxiiii. Die uero. xxy. octobris.
Edited, and with a poem, by Hieronymus Bononius.
With the index of Raimundus Marlianus.
A close reprint of the edition published in Venice by Theodorus de Ragazonibus, 13 July 1490 (BMC).
Printed with 45 long lines to a full page.
Printed headlines and marginalia.
The ornamental woodcut initial and incipit on a2r are printed in red.
Ornamental woodcut initials in black elsewhere.
Woodcut printer's mark on r6r with St. Anthony the Great holding a bell and accompanied by a boar.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00024000.
Indexed in: Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) 4220; BMC V 496 (IB. 23652); Gesamtkat. d. Wiegendr. 5871.
Features
Various notes in German in pencil manuscript, nineteenth-century, inside the front cover.
This copy is wanting leaves a1, a8, r4 and r5.UKLeU
Bindings
Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth century binding, probably German, of dark brown calf over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a panel design comprising quarduple fillets and small single stamps. The spine is smooth and is decorated with diagonal fillets. The covers are flush with the text block. There is indistinct lettering in black ink manuscript on the tail-edge. The corners are worn and there are slight losses to the head edge of the lower cover and the base of the spine. Size: 305 x 215mm. Leaf size: 305 x 210mm.
Provenance
Owner's stamp in blue on the outer margin of the first leaf: G.W.B.D.. This is the stamp of the Counts of Waldbott-Basseheim (Gräflich von Waldbott-Bassenheim'sche Domanialverwaltung).
Pencil manuscript accession number 4089 at bottom of the first leaf. Date of accession to the Library of the University of Leeds can be identified as 3 May 1921. The book was purchased from the vendor Hiersemann for M960 with money from the General fund.
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