[Epistolae magni Turci]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Epistolae magni Turci]
Classmark: BC Incunabula/PLI
Creator(s): Laudivio de Vezzano
Additional creator(s): Mehmet Sultan of the Turks (1432-1481) (Other); Lisa, Gerardus de (1471-1495?) (Printer); Berio, Giovanni Domenico marchese di Salza (1791) (Former owner); Berio, Francesco Maria marchese di Salza (1765-1820) (Former owner); Dudley and Ward of Dudley, William Ward Viscount (1750-1823) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Mehmet; Lisa, Gerardus de; Berio, Giovanni Domenico; Berio, Francesco Maria; Dudley and Ward of Dudley, William Ward; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: G[erardus de Lisa, de] F[landria
Publication city: [Treviso]
Date(s): [about 1475]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [XXII] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/279813
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008368689705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a⁸ b⁶ c⁸].
Probable imprint from ISTC.
Apparently reprinted from the edition [Padua]: D.S., [about 1475] (Goff M58), with the addition of a table (BMC).
Falsely attributed to Mahomet II by the author, Laudivius Zacchia (F. Babinger, Laudivius Zacchia, der Erdichter der "Epistolae Magni Turci", Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Phil.-hist. Klasse, Sitzungsberichte, Heft 13, 1960) (CIBN).
Colophon on numbered leaf XX has initials G.F.T.
Leaf numbers printed in Roman numerals at the top centre of rectos.
Initial space with guide-letter on numbered leaf I.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00059000.
Indexed in: HC 10502; Pell Ms 7410 (7347); CIBN L-58; Parguez 681; Polain(B) 2562; IBE 3456; IGI 5967; Sajó-Soltész 2037; IDL 2894; Mendes 826; Coll(U) 1071; Sack(Freiburg) 3764; Walsh 3297; Oates 2453, 2454; Sheppard 5494; Pr 6466; BMC VI 885.
Features
Bindings
Binding of full vellum over pasteboard. On the smooth spine is a pared brown leather lettering piece gold-tooled with the words: Eninc. episto. et alt. opusc. There is worm damage to the spine. The leaf edges are coloured green and the book has a green silk ribbon register. Size: 196 x132mm. Leaf size: 187 x 123mm.
Bound with 3 other publications. Volume contents: 1. Pliny, C: Liber illustrium virorum, 1478. -- 2. Laudivio de Vezzano: Epistolae magni Turci, c.1475. -- 3. Suetonis: De grammaticis et rhetoribus, 1478. -- 4. Albertus Magnus: De mirabilibus mundi, c.1478.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: Ex libris Marchionis Salsae. This is the bookplate of Giovanni Domenico Berio, marchese di Salza (d. 1791) and his son Francesco Maria (1765-1820).
Armorial bookplate on the back pastedown with the motto: Comme je fus. This is the bookplate of William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward of Dudley (1750-1823).
Small black and white 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: Francesco Maria Berio, marchese di Salza (1765-1820)
Biography of Francesco Maria Berio, marchese di Salza, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
Profile: Giovanni Domenico Berio, marchese di Salza
Biography of Giovanni Domenico Berio, marchese di Salza, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
Profile: William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward (1750-1823)
Biography of William Ward, 3rd Viscount Dudley and Ward, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.