[Hexameron]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Hexameron]
Classmark: BC Incunabula/AMB
Creator(s): Ambrose Saint, Bishop of Milan (397)
Additional creator(s): Guldenschaff, Johann (1477-1490) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Guldenschaff, Johann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Johann Guldenschaff
Publication city: [Cologne]
Date(s): [about 1480-1483]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [72] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/37395
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007723029705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated about 1480 in GW and Goff. IDL records a copy bought in 1483.
Signatures: [*⁴] a-g⁸ h-i⁶.
Printed in two columns with 37 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The first leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia00557000.
Indexed in: Goff A557; HC 901 ; Voull(K) 103; Pell 585; CIBN A-296; Hillard 97; Aquilon 20; Polain(B) 163; IDL 251; IGI 429; IBE 306; IBP 268; Madsen 166; Voull(B) 899; Voull(Trier) 575; Ohly-Sack 133; Borm 114; Finger 35; Walsh 417; Oates 696; Pr 1216A; BMC I 255; BSB-Ink A-477; GW 1604.
Features
Leaves 5 to 72 have been numbered I to LXVIII in blue ink manuscript at the top centre of rectos.
Major initial on a1r decorated in red and blue with ornamentation in red extending down the margin.
Other initials supplied alternately in red and blue.
Paragraph markers and capital strokes supplied in red.
Various notes in French regarding the edition in pencil manuscript, nineteenth-century, on the front pastedown.
The first two leaves have been repaired.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century half binding of pale brown calf and brown marbled paper, featuring the spot pattern in red, yellow, blue, brown and cream, over pasteboard. The leaf edges are coloured red. The spine has five raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Ambrosii Exameron [sic]. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the letters S. L. & A. Size: 287 x 203mm. Leaf size: 279 x 193mm.
Provenance
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
Access
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