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Armandus de declaratione difficilium terminorum tam theologiae quam philosophiae ac logicae

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Type of record: Book

Title: Armandus de declaratione difficilium terminorum tam theologiae quam philosophiae ac logicae

Other titles: De declaratione difficilium terminorum

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula ARM

Creator(s): Armand de Belvézer (1326-1334)

Additional creator(s): Wenssler, Michael (1472-1497) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Publisher: [Michael Wenssler]; [publisher not identified]

Publication city: [Basel]

Date(s): M. cccc. xci. Prima Marcij. in insigni vrbe Basileorum. [1 March 1491]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 1 unnumbered page, CLXXXIIII, 17 unnumbered leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/38496

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007725279705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Place and date of printing from colophon.


Colophon on y7v reads: Doctissimi atq[ue] Eximij Theologie professoris: necno[n] Sacri palacij preclarissimi doctoris. fratris Armandi de Bellovisu. Diui ordinis predicatoru[m]. Compendiu[m] difficiliu[m] terminoru[m] Theologie: Philosophie atq[ue] Logice declaratiuum Explicit foeliciter Anno salutiferi virginalis partus. M. ccc. xci. Prima Marcij. in insigni vrbe Basileorum.


Printer's name supplied from ISTC.


Signatures: a-y⁸ with two unsigned gatherings of 8.


Leaves [2-175] are numbered I-CLXXXIIII, with an error of ten leaves after XCIX, and other errors.


Quires from this edition are frequently found mixed with those from Goff A1056.


Printed with 34 long lines to a full page


With a table of contents printed in two columns at the end.


Printed headlines giving tract numbers and section titles.


Initial spaces with guide-letters.


Leaf y8 and the final leaf are blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ia01055000.


Indexed in: Goff A1055; H 1793; Polain(B) 311; IGI 856; IDL 414; IBP 534; Sajó-Soltész 313; Coll(U) 163; Voull(Trier) 167; Hubay(Augsburg) 183; Ohly-Sack 263; Sack(Freiburg) 289; Walsh 1136, 1137; Oates 2750, 2751; Pr 7588; BMC III 733; BSB-Ink A-730; GW 2501.

Features

Major initials supplied in red, blue and green.


Capital strokes supplied in red, paragraph markers supplied in red and blue.


Marginal annotations, sixteenth-century, in ink manuscript on the recto of leaf XXXVIII.


Wanting the first 3 leaves, the 2 blank leaves, and 4 leaves of the table.


Leaf XXXVIII has been repaired.


Bindings


Nineteenth-century binding of half pale brown goatskin and pink and brown marbled paper over pasteboard. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the spot pattern in brown, blue, pink and yellow. The spine has five raised bands on which are gold-tooled flower and leaf motifs. Gold-tooled on the second panel are the words: Tractactus de Transcendentibus. A single flower motif is gold-tooled on the third panel with a row of six flowers at the base of the spine in between double fillets. There are also gold-tooled double fillets at the head of the spine. Size: 158 x 117mm. Leaf size: 152 x 105 mm.

Provenance

Small black and white 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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