Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana Decreti
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Margarita decreti seu tabula martiniana Decreti
Classmark: BC Incunabula/MAR
Creator(s): Martinus Polonus (1279)
Additional creator(s): Petit, Jean (1492-1530) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Petit, Jean; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Jehan Petit
Publication city: [Paris]
Date(s): [about 1495]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [136] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/59035
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007758599705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-r⁸.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in two columns with 48 lines to a full column.
Printed paragraph markers.
Ornamental woodcut initials.
Printer's mark of Jean Petit on a1r.
Features
Some water damage.
Bindings
Binding of limp vellum with yapp edges. Written directly onto the spine in ink manuscript are the words: Margarita decreti. At the head of the spine is a paper library label with the number 2 written in black ink manuscript. There is evidence of the upper and lowers covers having been fastened together with two thongs. Paper pastedowns have been added and there is writing in ink manuscript on waste material bound at the back of the book. Size: 200 x 145mm. Leaf size: 200 x 140mm.
Provenance
Written in black ink manuscript to the right of the printer's mark on leaf a1r: E.2.W. 153. De la Libreria de la Encarnacion de Montilla, Lit.L. 2cl. N.23. The book once belonged to the College of La Encarnacion in Montilla, near Cordoba.
Written in black ink manuscript, crossed out, beneath the printer's mark on leaf a1r: S. Laurencio de Montilla [...] 1775 [...]. The book belonged to the Franciscan convent of St. Laurence in Montilla.
Written in black ink manuscript, crossed out, at the base of leaf a1r: De la Libreria de S. Lorenço de Montilla. E 3 no 6. 50.
Small blue and white armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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