Incipiunt sermones notabiles atque putiles (Pt.2)
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Type of record: Book
Title: Incipiunt sermones notabiles atque putiles (Pt.2)
Other titles: Sermones thesauri novi de tempore et de sanctis; Opusculum sermonum thesaurus nouus haud imerito intitulatum de sanctis per totius anni curriculum sacris dogmatibus perornatum
Classmark: BC Incunabula/PET
Creator(s): Petrus de Palude, Patriarch of Jerusalem (1342)
Additional creator(s): Koberger, Anton (1440-1513) (Printer); Evans, Sebastian (1830-1909) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Koberger, Anton; Evans, Sebastian; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Expe[nsis] anthonij Koberger imp[er]ia[lis] ciuitatis Nurenberge[m]; Anton Koberger
Publication city: [Nuremberg]
Date(s): Anno salutis M.cccclxxxvij finem clausit.x.k[alens].Marcij. [20 February 1487]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [526] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/94871
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008135099705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: aa⁸ bb-zz⁶ &&⁶ Aa-Mm⁶ Nn⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on Nn7v reads:... Expe[nsis] anthonij Koberger imp[er]ia[lis] ciuitatis Nurenberge[m]. in cole per lucide exaratu[m]. Anno salutis M.cccclxxxvij finem clausit.x.kl[is].Marcij.
Printed in two columns with 55 lines to a full column.
Includes indexes.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Contents: [part 1] Sermones de tempore -- [part 2] Sermones de sanctis.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00528000.
Indexed in: Goff P528; Copinger 5415.
Features
Occasional marginal annotations, manicules and underlinings in black ink manuscript.
Occasional underlinings in red and blue ink manuscript.
The large major intial on aa3r has been supplied and decorated in red and blue within a square border.
Other major initials supplied and decorated alternately in red and blue.
Capital strokes supplied inconsistently in red.
Paragraph markers supplied in red and blue.
This item contains the second part only, the Sermones de sanctis.
Bindings
Sixteenth-century German binding of pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. The upper and lower panels are blind-tooled with an elaborate border and frames of multiple fillets containing repeating patterns of stylised foliage and an interlace design. Surrounding the central panel is a frame containing tools of liturgical figures seated above the abbreviated Christian phrases Apparuit ben., Ecce agnus d. and Data est mihi. The spine has four raised bands and in the second panel is a pared red leather lettering piece tooled in black with the words: Thesaur[i] sermone[s] de ann[...] 1487. The book has dark red cloth hinges and pastedowns of marbled paper featuring the peacock pattern in red, yellow, blue and cream. The upper and lower covers are fastened with two decorative metal clasps with pigskin straps catching on the upper cover. Size: 300 x 215mm. Leaf size: 282 x 200mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript at the head of leaf aa2r: Monasterij Rhenoviensis, sub Abbate Eberhardo... Ano 1624. The book was owned by Rheinau Abbey (Kloster Rheinau), a Benedictine monastery in the Canton of Zurich, Switzerland, under the Abbot Eberhard.
Bookplate of Sebastian Evans, M.A. on the front pastedown.
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: Sebastian Evans 1830-1909
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