Biblia cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra (Pt.4)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Biblia cum postillis Nicolai de Lyra (Pt.4)
Other titles: Bible
Classmark: BC Incunabula LYR
Additional creator(s): Paulus a Mercatello (Editor); Guilielmus Brito (Commentator); Moneliensis, Franciscus (Other); Paul of Burgos (1351-1435) (Other); Döring, Mathias (1400-1469) (Other); Nicholas, of Lyra (1270-1349) (Other); Jenson, Nicolas (1420-1480) (Publisher); Johann von Köln (1471-1491) (Publisher); Herbort, Johann (1484) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Publisher: [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt, for] Johannis de colonia Nicolai ienson sociorumque; [Johannes Herbort, de Seligenstadt], for Johannes de Colonia, Nicolaus Jenson et Socii
Publication city: Venetijs [Venice]
Date(s): Anno milesimo quodringentesimo octuagessimo primo pridie calendas sextiles. [31 July 1481]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 4 volumes ([1,571] leaves)
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/57434
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007758769705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
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First printer's name from IG. Rest of imprint from colophon.
Colophon on leaf 14.6r reads: Exactum est venetijs insigne hoc : ac inusitatum opus biblie vna cum postillis venerandi viri ordinis minorum fratris Nicolai de lyra : cu[m]q[ue] additionibus per venerabile[m] episcopu[m] Paulum burgensem editis : ac replicis magistri Matthie dorinck eiusdem ordinis minoru[m] fratris & theoligi [sic] optimi. Charactere vero i[m]pressum habes iucundissimo : impensaq[ue] : curaq[ue] singulari. Optimorum Johannis de colonia Nicolai ienson : sociorumque : Olympiadibus dominicis : anno millesimo quodringentesimo octuagessimo primo pridie calendas sextiles.
Edited by Paulus a Mercatello. With the commentary of Guillelmus Britonis on the prologues of Saint Jerome and additions by Franciscus Moneliensis, Paulus Burgensis and Matthias Doering.
Text surrounded by commentary in two columns with 66 lines to a full column.
Printer's mark in red on the final page of the index.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00611000.
Additional description
Wanting 15 leaves [from the end?] (Contra perfidiam Judaeorum)
Features
Copious marginal annotations to the Gospels in black ink manuscript.
A leaf of closely-written black ink manuscript, in the same hand as the marginal annotations, has been inserted before the first printed leaf.
The initial Q on the first printed leaf (Ee2r) is set within a square of gold and decorated with the symbols of the Four Evangelists in colour with highlights in gold. A border of stylised foliage in gold and colours extends a third of the way down the inner margin.
Major initials supplied alternately in red and blue.
Paragraph markers supplied in red and blue.
Part 4, New Testament only.
Wanting 15 leaves [from the end?] (Contra perfidiam Judaeorum).
Bindings
Binding of half pigskin over wooden boards, rebacked. The new spine has four raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Nicholas de Lyra postils (New Testament). Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Venice 1481. In the fourth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. The pigskin is stamped with a repeating pattern of stylised foliage where it meets the wooden boards. Size: 315 x 226mm. Leaf size: 304 x 212mm.
Provenance
Written in black ink manuscript at the base of leaf Ee1: de la libreria del convento de [...] San Antonio de Ubeda.
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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