Sacri canonis missae expositio

Description

Signatures: a-c⁸ d-z A-U in alternate 6s and 8s X-Z⁶ &⁶ [con]⁸.

Colophon on Z4v reads: Finem cepit hec sacri canonis misse lectura in alma vniuersitate Tubingen Anno domini 1488. quarta noue[m]bris Visa deniq[ue] est atq[ue] reuisa [et] cu[m] p[ro]thotipo auscultata. op[er]a et lucubrat[i]o[n]e sedula Eximij viri we[n]delini steinbach sacre theologie p[ro]fess[oris]. in p[re]fato gymnasio lectoris ordinarij. sicq[ue] accurate elimata (lo[n]ge ampli[us] q[uam] p[ri]or euaserit imp[re]ssura) librarior[um] caracterisat[i]o[n]e in luce[m] p[ro]dijt. Expensis Friderici meynberger in vigilia sancti Andree. Anno d[omi]ni.1499. [et]c[etera].

Text printed in two columns with 53 lines to a full column.

Initial spaces, some with guide letters.

Woodcut illustration on f3r of the crucified Christ.

Woodcut initial on f3v.

Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00660000.

Indexed in: Sallander 1632; Goff B656.

Features

Written in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, above the title on the title page: Contenta Gabrielis Biel.

Marginal annotations in ink manuscript, sixteenth-century.

Some worm damage.

Bindings

Sixteenth-century German binding of full pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. Both the upper and lower covers are blind-stamped with a frame of triple fillets inside which is a repeating design of stylised foliage and flowers. There are the remains of two decorated metal clasps on the upper and lower boards with the catch on the upper cover. The spine has three raised bands. Written in ink manuscript directly on to the first panel are the words: Expositio Can. Missa p Gab Biel. A paper library label is pasted onto the bottom panel, with the number E 1107 in black ink manuscript. There is some slight damage to both the head and tail of the spine. Size: 288 x 220mm. Leaf size: 277 x 205mm.

Provenance

Written in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, at the bottom of the title page: Carthusiæ in Buxheim.

Written in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, beneath the title on the title page, is a library number: S 88.

At the bottom of a2r is a small oval armorial library stamp: Bibl Buxheim. This is the stamp from the Carthusian library at the Reichskartause Buxheim (Buxheim Charterhouse) near Memmingen in Bavaria. After the secularisation of the Charterhouse, the library was transferred to the Counts of Ostein, and then inherited by the Counts of Waldbott von Bassenheim in 1810. This book formed part of that transfer since it was listed in the catalogue (2 copies: items no. 3322/3322a) when the Waldbott-Bassenheim library was sold in 1883.

Cutting from a sale catalogue on the front pastedown. Beneath, in pencil manuscript, the price: £31.10.0.

Written on the back pastedown in pencil manuscript is a price and date: 31-10-0. 8/11/28.

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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