De laniis & phitonicis mulieribus
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Type of record: Book
Title: De laniis & phitonicis mulieribus
Other titles: De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus; De laniis et phitonicis mulieribus
Classmark: BC Incunabula/MOL
Related people: Sigmund; Prüss, Johann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Johann Prüss
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): [not before 10 January 1489]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [28] leaves
Manifest: https://iiif.library.leeds.ac.uk/presentation/cc/pdbvr8ds
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/60479
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007775119705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-b⁸ c-d⁶.
Imprint from ISTC.
BMC dates the book to about 1488-93.
Title taken from leaf a1r.
Introductory letter addressed to Sigmund, Archduke of Austria.
Leaf a2r: Tractat[us] ad illustrissimu[m] principem d[omi]n[u]m Sigismundum archiducem austrie. Stirie carinthie [etcetera] de lanijs [et] phitonicis mulieribus per Ulricum molitoris de constantia. studij papiensis. decretorum doctorem [et] curie constantien[um] causarum patronum. ad honore[m] eiusde[m] principis ac sub sue celsitudinis eme[n]datio[n]e scriptis.
Text written in the form of a dialogue.
Text dated and signed at the end (leaf d5v): anno d[omi]ni.m.cccc.lxxxix.die decima ianuarij. Tue celsitudinis humilis co[n]siliarius [et] seruulus vlricus molitoris de consta[n]tia decreto[rum] doctor.
There are six full-page woodcuts designed for the book and measuring about 120 x 75mm on a4v, a7r, b2v, b4v, c1r, d1r. A larger woodcut measuring 135 x 92mm of a procession for exorcism from De miseria curatorum appears on a1v.
Printed with 35 long lines to a full page.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00794000.
Indexed in: Hain. Repertorium 11535; Schramm. Bilderschmuck d. Frühdr., v.20, p. 27; Proctor, 562; BMC I 126 (IA. 1723; dated: [about 1488-1493]); Goff. Third census, M-794.
Features
The major initial on a2r has been supplied in red on a gold ground and decorated in blue.
Leaf b4 and the final blank leaf are missing.
Bindings
Binding of full parchment. Written directly onto the spine in black ink manuscript are the words: De Laniis et phitonicis - Molitor - Coloniae, c. 1490. Size: 199 x 147mm. Leaf size: 190 x 140mm.
Provenance
Small black and white 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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