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Psalterium beati Brunonis episcopi Herbipolensis

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Type of record: Book

Title: Psalterium beati Brunonis episcopi Herbipolensis

Other titles: Bible

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC Incunabula/BRU

Additional creator(s): Bruno Saint, Bishop of Würzburg (1045) (Commentator); Koberger, Anton (1440-1513) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Related people: Bruno; Koberger, Anton; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton

Publisher: per Anthoniu[m] Koberger impressum; Anton Koberger

Publication city: [Nuremberg]

Date(s): Anno incarnate deitatis millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimoseptimo finit feliciter. [1497]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: [172] leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/42768

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007977559705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: a-x⁸ y⁴.


Printer and date from colophon.


Colophon on y2v reads: Beati Brunonis psalteriu[m] ex doctoru[m] dictis collectum per Antoniu[m] Koberger impressum. Anno incarnate deitatis millesimo quadringe[n]tesimo nonagesimoseptimo finit feliciter.


The text of the Psalms is surrounded by Bruno's commentary.


Printed in two columns with 52 lines of commentary to a full column.


Initial spaces with guide-letters in the introduction.


The last two leaves y3 and y4 are blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ip01057000.


Indexed in: Hain 4013; Goff P1057.

Features

The verso of the front free endpaper is filled with ink manuscript notes in French in two different hands.


Bindings


Early sixteenth-century binding of full dark brown calf over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are blind-stamped with a border and frames containing a running pattern of lozenges and small flowers. Gold-tooled on the the upper cover are the words: S. Avbert. The spine has three raised bands with blind-stamped triple fillets either side. Each panel is blind-stamped with diagonal fillets and a horizonal fillet to form a star. Holes in the upper and lower covers suggest that the book was once fastened shut with ties or clasps. Losses to the lower cover and head and tail of the spine have been repaired with a further loss to the head of the spine revealing the sewing and endband. Remnants of vellum manuscript are visible under the back pastedown and between leaves x8v and y1r. Size: 215 x 154mm. Leaf size: 207 x 146mm.


Bound with one other publication. Volume contents: 1. Gregory I, Pope: Dialogi, 1508. -- 2. Bruno, Saint, Bishop of Würzburg: Psalterium, 1497.

Provenance

Written at the head of the title page to the first work bound in this volume are words, crossed out, followed by: biblioteca Sti. auberti.


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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