[Postilla super epistolas et evangelia]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Postilla super epistolas et evangelia]
Classmark: BC Incunabula/GUI
Creator(s): Guillermus Parisiensis
Additional creator(s): Zell, Ulrich (1503) (Printer); Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787-1854) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Zell, Ulrich; Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: [Ulrich Zel]; [Ulrich Zell]
Publication city: in... Colonia [Cologne]
Date(s): an[n]o salutis millesimoquadringe[n]tesimo octagesimosecundo: decimoseptimo Kal[endas] Augusti. [16 July 1482]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [1], CXXiiij, [1] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/56161
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007753749705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-p⁸ q⁶.
Date from colophon on the recto of leaf CXXij (q3r).
Printer from ISTC.
Printed in two columns with 49 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ig00675000.
Indexed in: Goff G675; HC 8259; Voull(K) 535; Polain(B) 4404; IDL 2183; IBE 2806; Goff(P) 51; Voull(B) 641,12; Ohly-Sack 1363; Madsen 1856; Sheppard 702; Pr 903; BMC I 196; GW 11949.
Features
Early inscriptions in black ink manuscript and black decorated with red on a1r, now indistrinct.
Inscription in black ink manuscript, seventeenth-century, on a1r: Jodocus […] Sacellanus S. Brigidae emit hunc librum s. Marcis A[nn]o 1642 in ambitu[m] Minor[um].
Notes in black ink manuscript, nineteenth-century, at the top of the front pastedown giving details of the edition.
Two numbers are written at the top left hand corner of the front pastedown. In black ink manuscript: 70. In red pencil manuscript: 205.
Major initials supplied in red, the larger ones decorated.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of marbled paper over pasteboard. The marbed paper features the spot pattern in green, brown and cream. At the top of the smooth spine is a blue paper label, partially damaged. Written on the label in black ink manuscript are the words: [...]rmi [P]ostilla. Coloniae Ulricus Zell. 1482. Written on the fore-edge in black ink manuscript is the number R12. There are brown tabs on the fore-edge marking sections of the text. Size: 280 x 228mm. Leaf size: 270 x 207mm.
Provenance
Book label of Georgius Kloss, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum on the front pastedown. Georg Kloss's library was disposed of by Sotheby's in 1835.
Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
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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