Rationale divinorum officiorum

Description

Signatures: a-d⁸ e-y A-D in alternate 6s and 8s E-F⁸.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on F6r reads: Georgius Uualch alamanus p[ro]batissimus librarie artis exactor. Impressum Uen[etiis].anno domini. Mcccclxxxij. die v[er]o xviij. Mensis. Maij.


Edited by Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus.


Printed in two columns with 58 lines to a full column.


Table at the end printed in three columns.


Initial spaces with guide-letters.


Indexed in: ISTC no. id00426000.


Indexed in: Goff D426; H 6486; Pell 4505; Polain(B) 1377; IBE 2230; IGI 3632; IBP 2021; Coll(S) 386; Borm 935; Finger 358; Walsh 1781; Pr 4488; BMC V 275; BSB-Ink D-343; GW 9124.

Features

Four leaves of notes in Latin in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century, have been inserted at the beginning and at the end of the volume, the final leaf acting as the back pastedown.


A leaf with a chalk diagram on the verso has been inserted before the four leaves of notes at the end of the volume.


Occasional manicules in the margins in black and red ink manuscript.


Leaf numbers have been supplied in black ink manuscript at the top right of rectos.


Notes in black ink manuscript, probably nineteenth-century, on the front pastedown, indistinct.


On leaf a2r is a decorated initial Q with a floral border extending down the inner margin and along the bottom of the page, painted in gold, red, blue and green.


At the base of a2r is a green circle, possibly a laurel wreath, enclosing a red shield on a blue ground, upon which is painted a cross in gold.


The major initials at the start of each book (leaves c2r, d2r, e3v, m5v, C3r and E7v) are decorated in gold and colours with floral borders extending into the margins.


Other major initials supplied in red and blue.


Capital strokes supplied in blue with paragraph markers in red and blue.


Some water damage to the leaf edges.


Some worm damage.


Bindings


Binding of half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards, rebacked. The spine has four raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Durantus. Rationale divinorum officiorum. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Venice 1483. In the fourth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. On the edge of the lower board are the remains of two metal clasps in the shape of flowers. The pigskin back is fastened onto the upper and lower boards with three small decorated nails. Watermark of a crown enclosed in a circle on the inserted leaf with the chalk drawing at the end of volume. Size: 322 x 221mm. Leaf size: 311 x 215mm.

Provenance

Written on a1r in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century: [...] Conuentus Montis Florum S. Francisci Ord[in]is Min[orum] Conuentualium. This book once belonged to the Franciscan convent at Montefiore - probably Montefiore dell'Aso in the Marche region of Italy.


Written at the top of a2r in black ink manuscript in the same hand, another version of the same inscription.


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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