Inuentarium eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur (v.1)
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Inuentarium eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur (v.1)
Other titles: Opera; Inventarium eorum que in operibus Gersonis continentur
Classmark: BC Incunabula/GER
Creator(s): Gerson, Jean (1363-1429)
Additional creator(s): Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann (1445-1510) (Editor); Grüninger, Johann (Printer); Prüss, Johann (1510) (Printer); Flach, Martin (1500) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Geiler von Kaysersberg, Johann; Grüninger, Johann; Prüss, Johann; Flach, Martin; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: [Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, partly with the types of Johann Prüss and Martin Flach]
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): 1488
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 3 volumes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/48431
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007749769705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from ISTC.
Volume 1: [51v title] Prima pars operum Johannis Gerson. [227r colophon] Prima pars operum magstri Johannis gerson sacrorum literarum doctoris resolutissimi Christianissimique complectiones tractatus ac potestatem ecclesiasticam concernentes finit feliciter anno dominice natiuitatis. Mcccclxxxviij. Mensis vero septembris ydus quarto quarto. Volume 2: [1r. title] Secunda pars operum Johannis de Gerson doctoris christianissimi. [285v. colophon] Secunda pars operum domini Johannis Gerson doctoris christianissimi continens precipe o opuscula ad mores accommodata. Explicit feliciter. Anno nostre salutis. Mcccclxxxviij.Nonas vero Julij mensis quinto. Volume 3: [1r title] Tertia pars operum Iohannis de Gerson doctoris christianissimi. [359v colophon] Finiunt opera cancellarij parisiensis doctoris christianissimi magistri Johannis de gerson. que vt frugem lectori vberrimam ferant emendatissima lima castigata fuere. Anno domini M. CCCC./lxxxviij. Idus vero mensis Septembris. octavo.
Goff assigns the printer as Grüninger; others have assigned the edition to Johann Prüss.
Second edition of Gerson's works and the first illustrated edition.
Sometimes found with a fourth part, printed by Flach in 1502, which is also found with other editions.
Edited by Johannes Geiler von Kaisersberg.
Printed in two columns with 53 lines and headline to a page.
No signatures.
Foliation is irregular with multiple duplication.
Includes index.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Woodcuts attributed to Albrecht Dürer.
Woodcuts on the verso of each title page of Gerson as a pilgrim passing a castle, holding a coat of arms showing the planets and a winged heart with the letter T on it in one hand and a staff in the other.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ig00186000.
Indexed in: BMC I 170; Goff G186.
Features
Notes in black ink manuscript, fifteenth- or sixteenth-century, at the top of the title page (a1r), indecipherable.
Notes in pencil manuscript, twentieth-century, on the recto of the front free endpaper giving details of the edition.
The major initial I on a2r is decorated in gold on a red and blue background.
Other major initials supplied alternately in red and blue, some decorated.
Paragraph markers supplied alternately in red and blue.
Part 1 only, wanting the final 8 leaves.
Bindings
Late seventeenth- or eighteenth-century binding of old dark brown calf over pasteboard. The spine has five raised bands and all except the second panel are decorated with gold-tooled double fillets forming a frame containing a lozenge-shaped fleuron surrounded by stylised foliage. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Gerson Opera. The leaf edges are sprinkled red. Size: 305 x 213mm. Leaf size: 293 x 200mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript, seventeenth-century, on the title page (a1r): Communitatis Sancti Andreae in Nemore ord præm. 1669. The book once belonged to the Premonstratensian Abbey of Saint-André-aux-Bois at Gouy-Saint-André in northern France.
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.
Access and usage
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