Sophysmata magistri Pauli Veneti
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Sophysmata magistri Pauli Veneti
Other titles: Sophismata aurea
Classmark: BC Incunabula PAU
Creator(s): Paolo Veneto (1370-1428)
Additional creator(s): Baptista de Modoetia (Editor); Contarini, Secondo (1480-1493) (Editor); Scotto, Ottaviano (1498) (Publisher); Locatelli, Boneto (1486-1523) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem: Iussu [et] expensis Nobilis viri Octauiani Scoti Ciuis Modoetie[n]sis; Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus
Publication city: Impressum Venetijs [Venice]
Date(s): Anno domini.M.cccc.lxxxxiij. XII. kalendas nouembres. [21 October 1493]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 54 leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/94843
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007978649705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A-I⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on I6r reads: Impressum Venetijs per Bonetum Locatellum Bergomensem: Iussu [et] expensis Nobilis viri Octauiani Scoti Ciuis Modoetie[n]sis. Anno domini.M.cccc.lxxxxiij. XII. kalendas nouembres.
Edited by Secundus Contarenus and Baptista de Modoetia.
Printed in two columns with 67 lines to a full column.
Printed running titles, marginal notabilia and foliation.
The title page A1 is unsigned, and leaves A2 and A3 are signed A and A2 respectively.
Printer's mark of Octavianus Scotus with the monogram OSM on leaf l6r.
Ornamental woodcut initials throughout with a larger intial on the second leaf (signed A).
Access is unrestricted.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00237000.
Indexed in: Goff P237; HC 12508; Pell Ms 9100 (8941); CIBN P-82; Hillard 1540; Péligry 615; IBE 4381; IGI 7345; Sajó-Soltész 2544; Mendes 974, 975; Coll(S) 809; Oates 1973; Sheppard 4203; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 1337; Pr 5048; BMC V 442.
Features
Notes in Italian in pencil manuscript on the front pastedown giving details of the edition.
Bindings
Binding of quarter vellum and pale brown paper over pasteboard. On the smooth vellum spine are two pared red leather lettering pieces. Tooled in black on the upper lettering piece are the words: Pauli Veneti Sophismata. Tooled in black on the lower lettering piece are the name and date: Bon: Locatel 1493. There is some slight damage to the tail of the spine. Size: 320 x 221mm. Leaf size: 315 x 210mm.
Provenance
Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
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
Access to this material is unrestricted.