Opus preclarissimum Epistolarum deuotissimi beatissimique Bernardi primi Clareuallensis, abbatis, quae emendate castigatum Feliciter incipit
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Type of record: Book
Title: Opus preclarissimum Epistolarum deuotissimi beatissimique Bernardi primi Clareuallensis, abbatis, quae emendate castigatum Feliciter incipit
Other titles: Correspondence
Classmark: BC Incunabula BER
Creator(s): Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint (1153)
Additional creator(s): Kesler, Nicolaus (1471-1510) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: [Nicolaus Kesler]; [Nicolaus Kesler]
Publication city: Exaratu[s] Basilee [Basel]
Date(s): Anno d[omi]ni Nonagesimoquarto sup[er] Millesimu[s] quaterq[ue] ce[n]tisimu[s].Die v[er]o p[ri]ma mens[is] Decemb[ris]. [1 December 1494]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 104 leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/39488
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007734959705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a⁸ b-r⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on r2v reads: Exaratu[s] Basilee. Anno d[omi]ni Nonagesimoquarto sup[er] Millesimu[s] quaterq[ue] ce[n]tisimu[s].Die v[er]o p[ri]ma mens[is] Decemb[ris].
Incipit on a2r reads: Incipit epistola sancti Bernardi Clareuallis abbatis ad robertum ne potem suum: qui de ordine Cisterciensi transierat ad Cluniacensem.
Printed in two columns with 55 lines to a full column.
Leaves 2-100 numbered II-C.
Printed headlines.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00386000.
Indexed in: Goff B386; HC 2872; Pell 2106; Polain(B) 583; IDL 751; IGI 1524; IBE 924; IBP 913; Sajó-Soltész 565; Madsen 608, 609; Voull(B) 535; Voull(Trier) 232; Hubay(Augsburg) 333; Ohly-Sack 465, 466; Sack(Freiburg) 565; Borm 401; Finger 158; Sheppard 2487; Pr 7686; BMC III 771; BSB-Ink B-311; GW 3926.
Features
Major initials supplied alternately in red and blue.
Capital strokes supplied in red.
Occasional marginal annotations and underlinings, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.
Some leaf edges and corners have been mended.
Leaf LXXVII is torn at one corner.
Slight water damage.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century full binding of dark red mottled paper over pasteboard. On the smooth spine is a paper title label. Written in black ink manuscript on the label: Bernardus - Epistolæ. Basle. Mccclxxx [sic]. Written in pencil manuscript on the label are the words: Bernardus. Basel 1494. Size: 313 x 230mm. Leaf size: 310 x 217mm.
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
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