[Commentaria super opera diversorum auctorum de antiquitatibus loquentium]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Commentaria super opera diversorum auctorum de antiquitatibus loquentium]
Classmark: BC Incunabula ANN
Creator(s): Nanni, Giovanni (1432?-1502)
Additional creator(s): Silber, Eucharius (1480-1510) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: Impressa per Eucharium Silber; Eucharius Silber
Publication city: Rome
Date(s): Anno d[omi]ni.M.cccc.xcviii. Die.x.mensis Iulii, Anno d[omi]ni.M.cccc.xcviii.Die.iii.me[n]sis Augusti. [10 July 1498, 3 August 1498]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 216 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/37510
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007723889705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a⁸ b⁴ A-D⁶ E⁸ F-G⁶ H-I⁸ K-L⁶ M-N⁸ O-Y⁶ Z⁸ &⁴ c⁸ d-k⁶.
Imprint from colophons.
The first colophon on &4r reads: Anno d[omi]ni.M.cccc.xcviii. Die.x.mensis Iulii Impressa per Euchariu[m] Silber al[ia]s Franck.
The second colophon on k5r reads: Anno d[omi]ni.M.cccc.xcviii.Die.iii.me[n]sis Augusti Impressa per Eucharium Silber al[ia]s Franck.
Printed with commentary surrounding the text.
Woodcut initials on a2r, a3r and b4v.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Half-page woodcut of Rome on M1v.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ia00748000.
Indexed in: BMC IV 118; Goff A748.
Features
Headlines have been added in seventeenth-century ink manuscript up to &3r.
Bindings
Seventeenth-century binding of full vellum over pasteboard. The spine has three raised bands. Written in ink manuscript on the spine in gothic lettering are the words: Frat: Joannis Annij Commentaria. The tail of the spine has been restored with vellum and there is a loss to the head of the spine revealing the headband and sewing. Wear to the raised bands has revealed the sewing supports. There is some damage to the joint between the spine and the lower cover. On the back free endpaper is a watermark of a crown enclosed within a circle surmounted by a staff and cross. Size: 308 x 214mm. Leaf size: 303 x 204mm.
Provenance
Written in ink manuscript at the foot of a2r is the word: Bibliothece. The remainder of the inscription has been washed and is indistinct.
Cutting from a sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
Written in pencil manuscript on the back pastedown is the price: 26-0-0 and the date: 8/11/28.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
Access
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