Incipit pars hyemalis Sermonum Meffreth (Pt.1-2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Incipit pars hyemalis Sermonum Meffreth (Pt.1-2)
Other titles: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis; Hortulus reginae; Ortulus regine
Classmark: BC Incunabula/MEF
Creator(s): Meffreth
Additional creator(s): Koberger, Anton (1440-1513) (Printer); Goldschmidt, E Ph (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Koberger, Anton; Goldschmidt, E. Ph; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: expensis spectabilis viri Anthonij Kobergers Nurenbergen[sis] incole; Anton Koberger
Publication city: [Nuremberg]
Date(s): Salutis anno Millesimoquadringentesimooctuagesimoseptimo.xvj k[a]l[enda]s Marcij. [14 February 1487]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [488] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/60325
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007771289705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a⁸ b-z⁶ [et]⁶ [con]⁸; aa-zz⁶ Aa-Ff⁶ Gg-Hh⁸ Ii-Kk⁶; AA-YY⁶.
Part 1: [154] leaves; part 2: [202] leaves; part 3: [132] leaves.
Imprint from colophon.
Printed in two columns with 70 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00443000.
Indexed in: BMC II 431 (IB. 7381); Hain. Repertorium, 11004; Goff. Third census, M-443.
Features
In black ink manuscript on the front pastedown and the recto of the front free endpaper in an early hand is the title of the work.
There are various notes in pencil manuscript on the front pastedown giving details of the edition.
The large major initials on a1r and aa1r have been supplied and decorated in red.
Other major initials supplied in red.
Capital strokes, underlinings and paragraph markers supplied in red.
The headlines and tables have been decorated with red pen ornamentation.
This item contains parts 1 and 2 only.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century German binding of brown calf over wooden boards, rebacked. Both the upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of double fillets containing a repeating pattern of stylised foliage. At the outer corners of the frame are circles containing a lion rampant, a crowned swan and floral motifs. A central panel is decorated with a blind-tooled line of lozenges containing an eagle. Between the panel and the frame are blind-tooled circles enclosing various floral ornaments. The spine has four raised bands and is undecorated. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps with the catch on the upper board. There are leather tabs on the fore-edge marking sections of the text. Small losses to the leather at the outer edges of the upper and lower covers have been replaced. Size: 350 x 250mm. Leaf size: 343 x 235mm.
Provenance
On the front pastedown is a pared black leather label gold-tooled with the words: Ex libris E. Ph. G. The book was in the possession of the antiquarian bookseller Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954).
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto 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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Profile: Ernst Philip Goldschmidt (1887-1954)
Biography of Ernst Philip Goldschmidt, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.