[Vitae pontificum]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Vitae pontificum]
Classmark: BC Incunabula PLA
Creator(s): Platina (1421-1481)
Additional creator(s): Rosso, Giovanni (1480-1519) (Printer); Méray, Antony (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: Accurate castigatu[m] ac i[m]pe[n]sa magistri Ioa[n]nis uercelensis; Johannes Rubeus Vercellensis
Publication city: [Treviso]
Date(s): M.cccc.lxxxv.die.x.februarii. [10 February 1485]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 136 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/96107
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008136159705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-q⁸ r⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on r5v reads: Excelle[n]tissimi historici Platinæ i[n] uitas su[m]mor[um] po[n]tificu[m] ad Sixtu[m]. iiii. po[n]tifice[m] maximu[m] præclar[um] opus fœliciter explicit: accurate castigatu[m] ac i[m]pe[n]sa magistri Ioa[n]nis uercelensis.M.cccc.lxxxv.die.x.februarii.
Leaf [1b]: Proemivm Platynae in vitas Pontificvm ad Sixtvm.
Printed with 52 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
No headlines or catchwords.
The last leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00770000,
Indexed in: BMC VI 897 (IB. 28435); Goff. Third census, P-770; Hain. Repertorium (with Copinger's Supplement) 13048.
Features
Numerous marginal annotations and headlines supplied in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- and sixteenth-century, some washed and many cropped.
The major initial on on leaf a5r is supplied in blue pencil.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of full brown Persian goatskin over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border of double fillets.The spine has four raised bands each blind-tooled with a single fillet with double fillets to either side. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Platinus In Vitas Pontificorum. Gold-tooled in the third panel is the date: 1485. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring a combination of the spot and curl patterns in red, orange, green blue and cream. The board edges are blind-tooled with a repeating pattern of hatching and the turn-ins are blind-tooled with triple fillets. The leaf edges are sprinkled red and the book has a green silk ribbon register. Size: 292 x 206mm. Leaf size: 285 x 195mm.
Provenance
Notes in French giving details of the edition on the recto of the first front flyleaf in blue pencil manuscript with paragraph marker and underlinings in red pencil manuscript by Antony Méray, author of La Vie au Temps des Cours d'Amour.
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.
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