[Super arboribus consanguinitatis, affinitatis et cognationis spiritualis]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Super arboribus consanguinitatis, affinitatis et cognationis spiritualis]
Other titles: Arbor consanguinitatis
Classmark: BC Incunabula/AND
Creator(s): Giovanni d'Andrea (1270-1348)
Additional creator(s): Creussner, Friedrich (fl. 1472-1499) (Printer); Huth, Henry (1815-1878) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner); Riviere & Son (Binder)
Related people: Creussner, Friedrich; Huth, Henry; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per Fridericum Creussner; Friedrich Creussner
Publication city: Impressus Nur[e]mberge [Nuremberg]
Date(s): Anno domi[ni] Millesimo quadrige[n]te simooctuagesimooctauo. [1488]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [10] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/37429
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007723319705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on leaf [10r] reads: Finit tractatus magistri Joha[n]nis Andree super arboribus consanguinitatis, affinitatis necnon Spiritualis cognationis. Anno domi[ni] Millesimo quadrige[n]te simooctuagesimooctauo. Impressus Nur[e]mberge per Fridericum Creussner et cetera.
Printed with 34 long lines to a full page.
No signatures, foliation or pagination.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Two full-page woodcuts of the Trees of Affinity and Consanguinity, the latter of which folds out, in the form of natural trees with branches. A third full-page woodcut is a plain diagram of circles and connecting bands.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia00614000.
Indexed in: Hain 1038; Goff A614.
Features
Bindings
Nineteenth-century English binding of full dark brown morocco by Riviere & Son whose name is gold-tooled below the front pastedown. The board edges are gold-tooled with a single fillet and the turn-ins with double fillets. The book has gilt edges. The spine has two raised bands between which are gold-tooled the words: Andreas. Consanguinitatis - Nuremberg 1488. Size: 311 x 218mm. Leaf size: 309 x 211 mm.
Provenance
Black and gold leather book label on the front free endpaper: Ex Museo Huthii. From the library of Henry Huth (1815-1878), whose collection was sold between 1911 and 1920.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
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Profile: Henry Huth (1815-1878)
Biography of Henry Huth, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.