Lucij annei flori epitoma idest abbreviato de cursu ac statu romanorum a fundacione urbis per romulum usque ad augustum. Continentes 4 libros incipit feli
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Type of record: Book
Title: Lucij annei flori epitoma idest abbreviato de cursu ac statu romanorum a fundacione urbis per romulum usque ad augustum. Continentes 4 libros incipit feli
Other titles: Epitomae de Tito Livio bellorum omnium annorum DCC libri II; Epitomae rerum Romanarum
Classmark: BC Incunabula FLO
Creator(s): Florus, Lucius Annæus
Additional creator(s): Alexander van Roes (Other); Jordanus Osnaburgensis (Other); Hoernen, Arnold ter (Printer); Bedford, Francis (1799-1883) (Binder); Huth, Henry (1815-1878) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: [Arnold Ther Hoernen]
Publication city: [Cologne]
Date(s): [about 1474]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 30 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/48225
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007749009705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a-c¹⁰].
Imprint from ISTC.
The Memoriale of Alexander incorporates the work of Jordanus Osnaburgensis, De imperio romano. The version given here, with title De commendacione romani imperii, corresponds to capp. 4-34 of the edition of H. Grundmann and H. Heimpel (Alexander von Roes, Schriften (Stuttgart, 1958)), of which capp. 4-9 are the tract of Jordanus.
Title from incipit at head of [a1r].
The title on [a1r] is printed in red.
Printed in two columns with 46 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. if00233000.
Indexed in: Goff F233; HC 7199; Voull(K) 419; Pell 4858; IDL 1836; IBE 2468; IGI 4006; Sajó-Soltész 1336; Madsen 1606; Voull(B) 731,3; Voull(Trier) 395; Sack(Freiburg) 1461; Mittler-Kind 365; Oates 459; Sheppard 717; Pr 974; BMC I 202; GW 10094.
Features
Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript on [c5r] and [c9r] (leaves 25r and 29r respectively).
All major initials except two supplied in red.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of full dark brown crushed goatskin by F. Bedford whose name is gold-tooled beneath the turn-in at the front of the book. Both the upper and lower covers are decorated with a border and frame comprising a fine gold-tooled fillet with a single thick blind-tooled fillet inside it, and a gold-tooled fleuron at each corner of the frame. The spine has six raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Florus et Jordanus. Gold-tooled in the third panel are the words: Colon. Therhoernen. There are small gold-tooled fleurons in the other panels. The turn-ins are decorated with a gold-tooled double fillet and there is a single gold-tooled fillet on the board edges. The book has gilt edges. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the comb and curl patterns in red, pink, blue, yellow and white. Size: 290 x 213mm. Leaf size: 285 x 204mm.
Provenance
Black and gold leather book label on the front free endpaper: Ex Museo Huthii. From the library of Henry Huth (1815-1878), whose collection was sold between 1911 and 1920.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front free endpaper. Also, the later coloured armorial bookplate of Lord 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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