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Operum Beatissimi Dionysii

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Type of record: Book

Title: Operum Beatissimi Dionysii

Other titles: Dionysii Celestis hierarchia. Ecclesiastica hierarchia. Diuina nomina. Mystica theologia. Vndecim epistole. Ignatii Vndecim epistole. Polycarpi Epistola vna; Opera

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula/DIO

Creator(s): Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite

Additional creator(s): Higman, Johann (1500) (Printer); Hopyl, Wolfgang (1522) (Printer); Lacave Laplagne, Paul (1881-1982) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Related people: Higman, Johann; Hopyl, Wolfgang; Lacave Laplagne, Paul; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton

Publisher: per Ioannem Higmanu[m] et Volfgangu[m] Hopylium artis formularie socios; Johannes Higman and Wolfgang Hopyl

Publication city: In alma Parhisiorum schola [Paris]

Date(s): Anno ab Incarnatione eiusdem Domini Nostri Ihesu Christi 1498.die sexta Februarii. [6 February 1498/99]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: [4], 118 leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/44644

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007747859705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: A⁴ a-t⁶ v⁴.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on v3r reads: In alma Parhisiorum schola per Ioannem Higmanu[m] et Volfgangu[m] Hopylium artis formularie socios. Anno ab Incarnatione eiusdem Domini Nostri Ihesu Christi 1498.die sexta Februarii.


Printed with 50 long lines to a full page.


Leaves 5-121 are numbered 1-117.


Printed marginalia.


Initial spaces with guide-letters.


Woodcut title page with two circles containing the list of contents supported by two eagles and surmounted by a crown.


Woodcut diagrams.


The final leaf is blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. id00240000.


Indexed in: Goff D240; Stillwell D-196.

Features

Bindings


Early twentieth-century binding of full brown pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border of triple fillets. The spine has four raised bands with blind-tooled triple fillets to either side of each. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Opera Dionysii Areopagitoe. Gold-tooled in the third panel: Parisiis Higman et Hopyl 1498. The the fourth panel is the Brotherton Collection library stamp in gold. Size: 280 x 215mm. Leaf size: 263 x 202mm.

Provenance

Written in black ink manuscript on the recto of the leaf opposite the title page: Acheté pour la Bibliothèque du Château de La Plagne le 15 mars 1916. P. Lacave La Plagne - dép. This is the signature of Paul Lacave Laplagne (1881-1982).


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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