Modus legendi abbreuiaturas in vtroq[ue] iure siue processus iuris
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Modus legendi abbreuiaturas in vtroq[ue] iure siue processus iuris
Other titles: Modus legendi abbreviaturas in utroque iure sive processus iuris
Classmark: BC Incunabula MOD
Additional creator(s): Husner, Georg (1505) (Printer); Walsingham, Thomas de Grey 2nd baron (1748-1818) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)]; [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)]
Publication city: Impressus Arge[n]tine [Strassburg]
Date(s): Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.xcix.die xx mensis Augusti / Anno d[omi]ni. M.cccc.xcix. finitus sexta feria post Bartholomei. [20 and 30 August 1499]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 126 leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/60394
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007773479705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-f in alternate 6s and 8s g-v⁶.
Imprint from colophons.
First colophon on d4r gives the date: Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.xcix.die xx mensis Augusti.
Second colophon on v5v reads: Finit liber plurimo[rum] tractatuu[m] iur[is] impressus Arge[n]tine Anno d[omi]ni. M.cccc.xcix. finitus sexta feria post Bartholomei.
Printed in two columns with 51 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
The last leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00760000.
Indexed in: Stillwell M 650; Goff M760; Hain 11488; Polain(B) 2756.
Features
Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, early sixteenth-century, mostly cropped.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Binding of full calf over pasteboard, rebacked. Both upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a single fillet border. The spine has five raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel is the title: Modus legendus. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine is the date: 1499. In the fifth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. The leaf edges are sprinkled red and brown. Size: 271 x 206mm. Leaf size: 260 x 192mm.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Lord Walsingham on the front pastedown with the motto: Excitari non hebescere.
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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Profile: Thomas de Grey, 2nd baron Walsingham (1748-1818)
Biography of Thomas de Grey, 2nd baron Walsingham, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.