Iason de actionibus
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Iason de actionibus
Other titles: De actionibus
Classmark: BC Incunabula MAY
Creator(s): Maino, Giasone dal (1435-1519)
Additional creator(s): Benalius, Bernardinus (1483-1543) (Printer); Cypressus, Georgius Petrus (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: per Bernardinum Benalium; Bernardinus Benalius
Publication city: Venetijs [Venice]
Date(s): Anno Domini.M.CCCCLXXXXVII. Die penultimo mensis aprilis. [29 April 1497]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 130 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/60304
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007773159705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-p⁸ q¹⁰.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on q10r reads: Hoc opus diligentissime impressum est Venetijs per Bernardinum Benalium: Anno Domini.M.CCCCLXXXXVII. Die penultimo mensis aprilis.
Printed in two columns with 70 lines to a full column.
Initial space with guide-letter on leaf a2r.
Woodcut of St. Jerome beneath the colophon on q10r.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00416425.
Indexed in: H 10966; Polain(B) 2573; IBE 3715; BSB-Ink M-56.
Features
Notes in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century, on the verso of the second front flyleaf.
Marginal annotations, underlinings and manicules in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century.
At the top of q10v are four lines of verse in black ink manuscript.
Headlines supplied in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century.
An extra blank leaf bearing an ink manuscript table has been bound before the first printed leaf.
Leaf numbers have been supplied in ink manuscript at the top right of rectos.
The major initial on a2r has been supplied and decorated in black.
This copy is wanting leaf a1.
Bindings
Early twentieth-century binding of half pigskin and marbled paper over bevelled wooden boards. The marbled paper features the spot pattern in brown, orange, grey and blue. The spine has four raised bands. Blind-tooled in the second panel are the words: Lect. super tit. Institutionum de Actionibus. Blind-tooled in the third panel is the name: Mayno. Blind-tooled at the base of the spine are the words: Venetiis B. de Benalius 1497. In the fourth panel is the Brotherton Collection library stamp in gold. Several pages were marked by fore-edge tabs, now detached. Size: 407 x 288mm. Leaf size: 397 x 272mm.
Provenance
At the top of leaf a2r is an inscription in black ink manuscript: Ex libris Georgij Petri Cypressi anno 1662.
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.
Access and usage
Access
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