[Aurea Biblia, sive, Repertorium aurem Bibliorum]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Aurea Biblia, sive, Repertorium aurem Bibliorum]
Other titles: Biblia aurea
Classmark: BC Incunabula/RAM
Creator(s): Rampegolo, Antonio
Additional creator(s): Zainer, Johannes (Printer); Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787-1854) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Zainer, Johannes; Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: diligenter p[er] ioh[ann]em zeiner de reutlingen artificialit[er] effigiat[ur]; Johann Zainer
Publication city: Vlm
Date(s): Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxvi. [1476]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [160] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/96806
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008143719705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a⁸ b⁶ c-d¹⁰ e⁸ f-q¹⁰ r⁸].
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on [r7r] reads: Vigore infiniti entis explicit ilber bonus & perutilis Aurea biblia appellatus.veteris ac noui testa. Vlm diligenter p[er] ioh[ann]em zeiner de reutlingen artificialit[er] effigiat[ur] Anno d[omi]ni M.cccc.lxxvi. Cui sit honor & gloria in secula seculor[um].Amen. [etcetera].
Printed with 34 or 35 long lines to a full page.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ir00014000.
Indexed in: Goff R-14; Hain *13682; British Museum 1B. 9153 (part 2, p.524-5).
Features
Written in black ink manuscript at the head of leaf 15r (the first leaf of the text): Figuras Bibliorum Antonii de Rampelogis Augustiniani.
Leaves 15-159 have been foliated in black ink manuscript in an early form of Arabic numerals at the top right of rectos.
Notes in black ink manuscript and pencil manuscript on the front and back pastedowns giving details of the edition.
Majot initials supplied in red.
Capital strokes, paragraph markers and underlinings in red.
At the foot of the last leaves are blind impressions of the letters C and E.
Wanting the first blank leaf, apparently replaced by a later substitute.
Some worm damage.
Some water damage.
Bindings
Binding of half pigskin over wooden boards. The pigskin on the upper and lower covers is blind-tooled with panels of double fillets containing repeating patterns of flowers and stylised foliage and two roses at the head and tail. The spine has three raised bands with blind-tooled double fillets to either side of each. In the first panel is a papel label with indistinct writing in early ink manuscript. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps, the catch on the upper board. There is some damage to the head and tail of the spine revealing the endbands. Size: 292 x 215mm. Leaf size: 271 x197mm.
Bound with 1 other publication. Volume contents: 1. Rampegolo, A: Biblia Aurea, 1476. -- 2. Le Grand, J: Sophologium, c. 1476.
Provenance
At the head of leaf 2r is an inscription in black ink manuscript: Monasterij S. Augustini Herbipolij. The book was in the possession of the Monastery of St Augustine in Würzburg.
Book label of Georgius Kloss, M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum on the front pastedown. Georg Kloss's library was disposed of by Sotheby's in 1835.
Cutting from a French sale catalogue 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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