Incipit Prohemium De proprietatibus rerum Fratris Bartholomei Anglici de ordine Fratrum Minorum
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Incipit Prohemium De proprietatibus rerum Fratris Bartholomei Anglici de ordine Fratrum Minorum
Other titles: De proprietatibus rerum; Prohemium De proprietatibus rerum
Classmark: BC Incunabula/BAR
Creator(s): Bartholomaeus Anglicus
Additional creator(s): Reinhard, Marcus (Printer); Philippi, Nicolaus (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner); Reider, Martin Joseph von (1793-1862) (Former owner)
Related people: Reinhard, Marcus; Philippi, Nicolaus; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton; Reider, Martin Joseph von
Publisher: Impressus per Nicolau[m] pistoris de Ben[ss]heym et Marcum reinhardi de Argentina socios; Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart
Publication city: [Lyon]
Date(s): Sub anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimo octogesimo.die vero Iulij.xxix. [29 July 1480]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [322] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/39486
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007730749705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-i¹⁰ k-l⁸ L⁸ m-x¹⁰ y-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ A-F¹⁰ G-H⁸.
Title from incipit on a2r.
Imprint from colophon (the printers were active in Lyon).
Colophon on H7v reads: Impressus per Nicolau[m] pistoris de Ben[ss]heym et Marcum reinhardi de Argentina socios. Sub anno d[omi]ni Millesimoquadringe[n]tesimo octogesimo.die vero Iulij.xxix.
Printed in two columns with 49 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
[con]4 is signed [et]4, d4 is unsigned.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00132000.
Indexed in: Goff B-132; BMC VII 245.
Features
Some marginal annotations, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century, cropped.
The first initial on a2r is decorated in blue, green, gold and black and contains a detailed illustration of the author in the habit of a Franciscan friar holding a book.
The bottom of a2r is decorated with a detailed border of stylised foliage in brown, green, blue and pink, extending up both the inner and outer margins.
The major initial on a2v is decorated with a design of stylised foliage in pink, green, gold and black.
Major initials supplied alternately in red and blue throughout.
Paragraph markers supplied in red and blue.
Capital strokes supplied in red.
Bindings
Binding of half blind-stamped pigskin and vellum manuscript over pasteboard. There are layers of vellum and printed paper over the boards, the former dating from the fifteenth century with capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red and blue. The pigskin on the upper and lower covers is blind-stamped with a design of stylised foliage in panels, inside which are roundels containing male human heads in profile, some wearing crowns and helmets. The spine has five raised bands. Written in black ink manuscript in the first panel are the words: Bart[...] Anglicus de proprietatibus rerum 1480. Written in the second panel in red ink manuscript, now much faded, is the number 6. In the fifth panel the date 1480 is supplied in red, with the number 1473 printed in black on a yellow paper label below. Written in the bottom panel in ink manuscript, now faded, is the word Argentina and the date 1480, and also a large capital letter P in black ink manuscript. The remains of two leather
thongs are attached to the upper and lower covers through slots in the vellum. Size: 290 x 212mm. Leaf size: 278 x 201mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript on the front pastedown: Martinus Jos: de Reider Bambergae 1830: Oct. 30 (Bayersdorf).
Blue library stamps on a1r and H7v each with a purple cancellation stamp. The book was disposed of by the Bayerisches Nationalmuseum in Munich.
Next to the library stamp on a1r is a paper library label with the number 2758.
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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Profile: Martin Joseph von Reider (1793-1862)
Biography of Martin Joseph von Reider, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.