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Libri & tractatus sequentes sancti Bonauenture in hoc volumine continentur... [etc]

Archive Print Item: BC Incunabula/BON

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Type of record: Book

Title: Libri & tractatus sequentes sancti Bonauenture in hoc volumine continentur... [etc]

Other titles: Opuscula

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula/BON

Creator(s): Bonaventure Saint, Cardinal (1217-1274)

Additional creator(s): Koelhoff, Johann (1493) (Printer); Hoeglein, Johann Valentin (1695-1726)) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Related people: Koelhoff, Johann; Hoeglein, Johann Valentin; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton

Publisher: P[er] me Iohanne[m] Coelhoff de lubeck Colonie ciuem vigila[n]ti cura impressi finiu[n]t feliciter; Johann Koelhoff, the Elder

Publication city: [Cologne]

Date(s): Anno gratie M.cccc.lxxxvi.in vigilia natiuitatis domini. [24 December 1486]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 332 leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/40192

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007742429705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: a-c⁸ d-f⁶ g-k⁸ l-m⁶ n⁸ o-p¹⁰ q⁶ r-z⁸ A-E⁸ Ff⁶ fF⁸ ff⁶ F-H⁸ I⁶ K⁸ L⁶ M-O⁸ P-Q⁶ R-S⁸ T-U⁶ X⁸.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on X7v reads: Libri et tractatus sancti Bonauenture ducis et generalis Magistri fratrum mino[rum] Cardinalis episcopi tt. albane[n]sis et sacre theologice doctoris seaphici p[er] me Iohanne[m] Coelhoff de lubeck Colonie ciuem vigila[n]ti cura impressi finiu[n]t feliciter. Anno gratie M.cccc.lxxxvi.in vigilia natiuitatis domini.


Printed in two columns with 45 lines to a full column.


Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ib00925000.


Indexed in: Goff B-925, Hain 3464.

Features

Occasional marginal annotations and underlinings in red and black ink manuscript.


Major initials supplied in red.


Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.


Headlines underlined in red.


Bindings


Late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century German binding of full blind-stamped pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. The upper and lower boards are decorated with a border and frame of triple fillets. The outer frame contains a repeated pattern of stylised foliage inside which are depictions of the virtues Justicia, Charitas, Fides, Paciencia, Fortituto and Spes. There are two decorated metal clasps attached with nails to the upper and lower covers, with the catch on the upper cover. The leather on the clasps has been restored. The spine has four raised bands with fillets to either side of each. In the first panel are words written in ink manuscript, now indistinct. Attached to the second panel is a pared red leather lettering piece on which are gold-tooled the words: Sti Bonaventure Tractatus Colonie Per Joh. Coelhoff. 1486. Size: 301 x 217mm. Leaf size: 283 x 200mm.

Provenance

Armorial bookplate of Iohannes Valentinus Hoeglein on the front pastedown.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on 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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