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Quae hoc volumine habentur varia diversaque et longa ex dispersione collecta quo brevi sub titulo subii ciantur ac nomine Recuperationes fesulanas lector agnoscito

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Type of record: Book

Title: Quae hoc volumine habentur varia diversaque et longa ex dispersione collecta quo brevi sub titulo subii ciantur ac nomine Recuperationes fesulanas lector agnoscito

Other titles: Recuperationes Faesulanae

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula BOS

Creator(s): Bossus, Matthaeus (1427-1502)

Additional creator(s): Beroaldo, Filippo (1453-1505) (Other); Benedetti, Platone de' (1496) (Printer); Prandi, Antonio (Former owner); Mayer, Caesar (Former owner); Rowe, Louis Thompson (1855-1927) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Publisher: Impressit omni solertia PLAto de Benedictis Bononiensis In Alma Ciuitate BONOniæ; Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis

Publication city: [Bologna]

Date(s): Anno Salutis MCCCCLXXXXIII. Decimo tertio kallendas Augustas. [20 July 1493]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: 184 unnumbered leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/42758

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007738949705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: [Maltese cross]⁶ a-g⁸ h⁶ i⁴ A-I⁸ k⁸ L-O⁸.


Imprint from colophon.


Colophon on O8r reads: RECVPERAtiones Fesulanas elegantissimas Opus quidem aureum et penitus Diuinum q[ue] castigatissime Impressit omni solertia PLAto de Benedictis Bononiensis in Alma Ciuitate BONOniæ. Anno salutis MCCCCLXXXXIII. Decimo tertio kallendas Augustas.


With additions by Filippo Beroaldo.


Printed with 35 long lines to a full page.


Caption on leaf a3r printed in red.


Woodcut printer's mark on the recto of the final leaf (O8r).


Initials spaces with guide-letters.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ib01045000.


Indexed in: Goff B1045; HC 3669; Pell 2782; CIBN B-732; Lefèvre 112; Parguez 260; Polain(B) 845; IBE 1154; IGI 2022; IBP 1214; Sajó-Soltész 790; IDL(Suppl) 1006a; Voull(B) 2757; Madsen 843; Walsh 3208, 3209; Sheppard 5343; Oates 2493; Pr 6597; BMC VI 826; BSB-Ink B-762; GW 4958.

Features

Occasional marginal annotations in red and black ink manuscript, fifteenth- to nineteenth century.


Underlinings and manicules in red ink manuscript, fifteenth- or sixteenth-century.


An ink manuscript annotation at the top of O8v has been crossed out.


Major initials on a3r, b8v, c7v, e7r and A1r decorated in red, blue, green, yellow, white and gold with ornamentation extending down the margins.


Other major initials supplied in red and blue alternately.


Bindings


Eighteenth-century quarter binding of brown and orange morocco over pasteboard. The spine has four raised bands with gold-tooled double fillets to either side of each. In the second panel is a pared green leather lettering piece on which are gold-tooled the words: Mattheus Bossus Recvperat Fesvlanæ. Gold-tooled on a pared green leather lettering piece in the fourth panel are the words: Editio Princeps. Gold-tooled on a similar lettering piece in the bottom panel: Bononiæ per Plat. de Benedict 1493. The book has marbled paper pastedowns featuring the spot pattern in blue and cream. Size: 307 x 202mm. Leaf size: 296 x 192.

Provenance

Written in black ink manuscript at the top of the front pastedown: Ant[onio] Can[onico] Prandi J 19:10.


In black ink manuscript at the top of the back pastedown in two hands beneath the words Olim and Nunc respectively, are the names: Ant[onio] Can[onico] Prandi: Caesaris Mayer [...]ionarii.


Book label on the front pastedown: From the library of Louis Thomas Rowe of XV Hammersmith Terrace, W.


Coloured armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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