Lucanus cum duobus commentis
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Type of record: Book
Title: Lucanus cum duobus commentis
Other titles: Pharsalia
Classmark: BC Incunabula LUC
Creator(s): Lucan (39-65)
Additional creator(s): Bonisoli, Ognibene (1412-1474) (Commentator); Sulpitius Verulanus, Joannes (Commentrator); Bevilaqua, Simon (1485-1518) (Printer); Koehler, F (Binder); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: p[er] Simone[m] beuilaqua[m] papie[n]se[m]; Simon Bevilaqua
Publication city: Venetiis Imp[re]ssu[m] [Venice]
Date(s): Anno salutis christia[n]æ.M.cccc.xcviii.die uero uicesima octobris. [20 October 1498]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 218 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/57428
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007758369705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A⁴ a-z⁸ A-C⁸ D⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on D6r reads: Exactu[m] hoc i[n]signe at[que] p[rae]cla[rum] op[us] Luca[n]i cu[m] Io. Sulpitii Verula[n]i viri clarissimi co[m]me[n]tariis a p[ro]prio originali extractis necno[n] Omnibo[n]i Vice[n]tini dilige[n]tissime eme[n]datis. Venetiis Imp[re]ssu[m] p[er] Simone[m] beuilaqua[m] papie[n]se[m] Anno salutis christia[n]æ.M.cccc.xcviii.die uero uicesima octobris.
Commentary by Omnibonus Leonicenus and Johannes Sulpitius Verulanus.
Includes dedicatory letters by Giovanni Britannico and Johannes Taberius, poems by Sulpitius and Christoforo Lanfranchini, and a brief life of Lucan by Pomponio Leto.
Printed with 62 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. il00307000.
Indexed in: Goff L307; HC 10242; Pell Ms 7287 (7229); CIBN L-241; Polain(B) 2518; IDL 2991; IBE 3570; IGI 5823; IBP 3456; Sajó-Soltész 2102; Voull(B) 4411; Coll(U) 972; Coll(S) 1301; Madsen 2522; Sack(Freiburg) 2275; Mittler-Kind 427; Walsh 2533, 2534; Oates 2098; Sheppard 4490; Pr 5409; BMC V 523; BSB-Ink L-237.
Features
A library number in black ink manuscript on the recto of the inserted leaf preceeding A1 has been crossed out: N. i.9.
Major initials supplied in red.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of full green goatskin by Koehler whose name is gold-tooled at the base of the spine. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border and frame of single and double fillets joined at the corners with double fillets. The spine has six raised bands each gold-tooled with a single fillet. Gold-tooled in the second panel is the name: Lucanus. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine is the date: 1498. The remaining six panels are decorated with a gold-tooled border of double fillets containing a central fleuron surrounded by stylised foliage. The turn-ins are gold-tooled with a repeating pattern of fleurons and the book has gilt edges. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the comb pattern in pink, yellow, green, blue and cream. Size: 324 x 225mm. Leaf size: 316 x 215mm.
Provenance
Written in black ink manuscript at the top of the recto of the inserted leaf preceeding A1: Codex monasterij sancti mathie apostoli. Lucanus poeta. Cu[m] co[m]me[n]tarijs Joannis Sulpicij Verulami et Omniboni placetini.
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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