Interrogatorium sive confessionale
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Interrogatorium sive confessionale
Classmark: BC Incunabula/CHA
Creator(s): Bartholomaeus de Chaimis
Additional creator(s): Vespola, Domenico (1476-1478) (Printer); Marliano, Jacobus de (1477-1478) (Printer); Dutton, William Henry (1827-1896)) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Vespola, Domenico; Marliano, Jacobus de; Dutton, William Henry; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: p[er] Dominicu[m] de Vespolate et Jacobum de Marliano; Dominicus de Vespolate and Jacobus de Marliano
Publication city: Impressum M[ilan]i [Milan]
Date(s): M.cccc°Lxxviij. die xxi Nouembris. &c. [21 November 1478]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [160] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/42963
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007741739705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A-I⁸ k⁸ L-X⁸ Y⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on Y5 v reads: Impressum M[ilan]i p[er] Dominicu[m] de Vespolate et Jacobum de Marliano.M.cccc°Lxxviij. die xxi Nouembris. &c.
Printed with 27 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Errors in signatures of gatherings L, N, R and Q.
The last leaf Y6 is blank and unsigned.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00158000.
Indexed in: Hain 2484; Goff B158.
Features
Marginal annotations and manicules throughout in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.
Leaf numbers have been added to the top right of rectos in pencil manuscript, twentieth-century.
Major initials and paragraph markers supplied in red.
Capital strokes supplied in yellow up to B6r.
Missing all after U8.
Bindings
The upper cover is of blind-tooled goatskin or sheep, fifteenth-century, over a wooden board. The lower cover is of plain calf over pasteboard, the leather re-used from another binding. The upper cover is blind-tooled with quadruple fillets forming a border and frame inside which is a repeating pattern of quatrefoils. The central panel contains blind-tooled fleurons forming lozenges. There is evidence of a single clasp on the upper board. The book was restored in 1958 and rebacked. The new spine is of brown Oasis goatskin and has three raised bands. Gold-tooled in the first panel are the words: Chaimis Interrogatoria. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Milan 1478. Attached to the verso of the back free endpaper is a typed note by the binder D.C. & Son dated May 1958 giving details of condition and subsequent work carried out on the item. The new front pastedown has a section cut out to reveal nineteenth-century ink manuscript notes on the edition written
directly onto the beech board. On the back pastedown the modern binder has conserved the remains of the old leather spine and two pared green leather lettering-pieces. Size: 172 x 123mm. Leaf size: 163 x 110mm.
Provenance
Bookplate of William Henry Dutton of Hewcroft, Newcastle, Staffordshire on the front pastedown. His library was sold at Sotheby's on 8 December 1903.
Cutting from a sales catalogue on the front free endpaper.
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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Profile: William Henry Dutton (1827-1896)
Biography of William Henry Dutton, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.