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Summa Pisani cum Supplemento incipit feliciter, que alias Magistrutia seu Pisanella appellatur

Archive Print Item: BC Incunabula AUS

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Type of record: Book

Title: Summa Pisani cum Supplemento incipit feliciter, que alias Magistrutia seu Pisanella appellatur

Other titles: Supplementum Summae Pisanellae

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula AUS

Creator(s): Nicholas of Osimo (1453)

Additional creator(s): Astesano (Other); Bartholomew of San Concordio (1262-1347) (Other); Zell, Ulrich (1503) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Publisher: [Ulrich Zell]; [Ulrich Zell]

Publication city: [Cologne]

Date(s): MCCCLXXXiij.Nona Kal[endas] Marcij. [21 February 1483]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 1 unnumbered page, CCCLIII leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/39485

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007727839705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: a-z⁸ A-T⁸ V-Y⁶.

Imprint date from the colophon on leaf CCCXLib.

Title from caption on leaf ia.

Nicholas is named on leaf CCCXXXviija.

An enlargement, completed by Nicholas of Osimo in 1444, of the Summa de casibus conscientiae by Bartholomew of San Concordia. Arranged alphabetically by topic.

Each folio number is printed both on the recto of its leaf and on the verso of the preceding leaf.

Table of abbreviations: leaf [1b]; tables of chapters and rubrics: leaves: CCCXXXviijb-CCCLa.

Canones poententiales (by Astesano): leaves CCCLa-CCCLiija.

Printed in two columns with 49 lines to a full column.

Initial spaces, no guide-letters.

Indexed in: ISTC no. in00065000.

Indexed in: Goff N-65.

Features

Major initials supplied inconsistently in red up to XXb.

Paragraph markers and capital strokes supplied inconsistently in red up to leaf XXb.

Some worm damage to the first 14 leaves.

Bindings

Twentieth-century binding of quarter brown pigskin and brown paper over pasteboard. The spine has four raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Supplementum Summae Pisanellæ. In the fourth panel is the Brotherton Collection library stamp in gold. Gold-tooled in the bottom panel are the place and date: Coloniæ. 1483. Many watermarks, including the gothic letter P, a shell, a pot with one handle and an animal, possibly a dog. Size: 285 x 223mm. Leaf size: 277 x 205mm.

Provenance

Inscription in Latin, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century, on the recto of the first leaf.

Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.

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.

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