Liber decretorum siue panormia Iuonis ac curato labore... in vnum redacta continens
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Type of record: Book
Title: Liber decretorum siue panormia Iuonis ac curato labore... in vnum redacta continens
Other titles: Decretum; Liber decretorum sive panormia Juonis ac curato labore
Classmark: BC Incunabula/IVO
Related people: Brant, Sebastian; Furter, Michael; Cobden-Sanderson, T. J; Morris, William; Grey, Charles Hervey; Crawshaw, Edward; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Expe[n]sis Michaelis furter elaborata; Michael Furter
Publication city: [Basel]
Date(s): Anno fructifere incarnationis. M.CCCC.XCIX. Mensis Martij die sexta. [6 March 1499]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [4], CLXXVIII leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/56836
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007757279705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [*⁴] A-X⁸ Y⁴ Z⁶.
Printer and date from the colophon on Z6r.
Colophon on Z6r reads: Reuerendi peritissimiq[ue] iuris consulti Iuonis panormie charnotensis ep[iscop]i co[m]me[n]datissimi: de varia scriptura[rum] distinctione (divina opitulante gr[ati]a) Expe[n]sis Michaelis furter elaborata. Anno fructifere incarnationis. M.CCCC.XCIX. Mensis Martij die sexta. Feliciter expliciunt.
With a preface by the editor Sebastian Brant.
The first quire (title page, preface, table) was apparently set up after the body of the book was printed.
Preface ends: Basilee ex edibus nostris nonis marcijs. Anno salutatis nostre M.CCCC.XCIX.
Printed with 37 long lines to a full page.
Table printed in two columns.
Printed headlines and foliation.
Woodcut illustration on verso of title page.
Ornamental woodcut initials in a variety of styles.
Printer's mark beneath the colphon on Z6r with the monogram MF.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ii00223000.
Indexed in: Goff I-223; BMC III 785 (IA 37809); Hain *9328.
Features
Written in pencil manuscript on the recto of the front free endpaper: Bound by Cobden-Sanderson.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of quarter brown goatskin over bevelled wooden boards. The spine has three raised bands and in the second panel is a paper lettering piece, slightly damaged, with writing in black ink manuscript: Ivo. Episcopus Charn[oth]ensii. Basel 1499. The top and bottom panels are blind-tooled with a design of stylised acorns, oak leaves and galls, as is the back where it overlaps onto the boards. There are the remains of two decorated metal clasps with the catch on the upper board. The clasps are preserved separately. A pencil note on the front free endpaper attibutes the binding to Cobden-Sanderson. Size: 225 x 162mm. Leaf size: 216 x 154mm.
Provenance
Written in early ink manuscript beneath the title on the title page [*1r] is a monogram: FI.
Book label on the front pastedown: From the library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith.
Bookplate on the front pastedown: Ex libris E. Crawshaw.
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: Ex libris Charles Hervey Hoare.
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the verso of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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