[Malogranatus]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Malogranatus]
Classmark: BC Incunabula/GAL
Related people: Eggestein, Heinrich; Dunn, George; Hart, Gerald E; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Heinrich Eggestein
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): [not after 1473]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [214] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/48250
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007750079705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from ISTC.
Polain dates the edition 1474.
Also attributed to Pierre de Zittau, abbot of Königsaal (cf Hillard 857).
Printed in two columns with 54 lines to a full column.
No signatures or pagination.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Two blank leaves, one at the end of the table of contents, and one at the end of the book.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ig00047000.
Indexed in: Goff G47; H 7449 = H 11654; GfT 739; TFS 1901a; Pell 4981; Aquilon 300; Arnoult 641; Torchet 368; Polain(B) 1540; IDL 1888; IBE 2556; IGI 4136; IBP 2274; Coll(S) 430; Madsen 1655; Voull(B) 2153; Hubay(Augsburg) 845; Hubay(Eichstätt) 396; Ohly-Sack 1181; Sack(Freiburg) 1492; Borm 1742; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 804; Sheppard 191-192; Pr 298; BMC I 75; BSB-Ink G-14.
Features
Written in ink manuscript in French on a separate piece of paper and pasted to the verso of the second front flyleaf is a long note on the book and its author.
Occasional annotations in red and black ink manuscript in different hands, late fifteenth- to nineteenth-century.
Headlines supplied in black and red ink manuscript, cropped.
Major initials supplied and decorated in red.
Some paragraph markers and underlinings in red.
Bindings
Binding of full brown calfskin over wooden boards, restored and rebacked. Both the upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border, frame and panels of double and triple fillets. Inside the outer frame is a repeating design of stylised foliage. The same design appears around the central panel which is undecorated. The new spine has six raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Galli Abb. Malogranatum. In the sixth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the places and date: Eggesteyn. 1470. The leaf edges are coloured red. Size: 381 x 280mm. Leaf size: 366 x 267mm.
Provenance
Book label on the recto of the first front flyleaf: From the library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead.
Bookplate on the verso of the second front flyleaf: Ex libris Gerald E. Hart, Edwin Cox & Co., Montreal. This volume is listed as item 964 in the 1890 auction catalogue of Hart's library.
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.
Beneath the text on the final leaf is a monogram drawn in red ink manuscript, late fifteenth-century, with the letters IT.
Capital strokes supplied in yellow throughout.
Access and usage
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On our website
Profile: George Dunn (1864-1912)
Biography of George Dunn, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
Profile: Gerald Ephraim Hart (1849-1936)
Biography of Gerald E. Hart, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.