Gesta Rhomanorum : cum applicationibus moralisatis ac misticis
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Gesta Rhomanorum : cum applicationibus moralisatis ac misticis
Other titles: Gesta Romanorum
Classmark: BC Incunabula/GES
Additional creator(s): Husner, Georg (1505) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Husner, Georg; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)]; [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)]
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): Anno nostre salutis.M.cccclxxxix. In die sancti Sixti pape [et] martyris. [6 August 1489]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [8], XCIII leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/51216
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007750019705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [*]⁸ a⁸ b-o⁶ p⁸.
Imprint date from colophon.
Colophon on p7r reads: Anno nostre salutis.M.cccclxxxix. In die sancti Sixti pape [et] martyris.
Printer from ISTC.
Printing traditionally assigned to the "Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg", sometimes alleged to be Johann Grüninger but generally identified as Georg Husner.
Printed in two columns with 46 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces, most with guide-letters.
Leaves [*]1v, p7v and p8 are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ig00292000.
Indexed in: References: Hain 7746; BMC I 139 (IB.1900); Goff G-292; Schmidt, C. Répertoire bibliographique strasbourgeois jusque vers 1530, v. 1, no. 11.
Features
Notes in black ink manuscript on the recto of the front free endpaper, nineteenth- or early twentieth-century, listing individuals in the text (Guy of Warwick, Robert of Cesele [Sicily] and Sir Isumbras) with page references.
This copy is missing the first 8 leaves.
Some water damage with staining to the edges of leaves.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Binding of full vellum over pasteboard. The letter D is written in black ink manuscript on the upper cover. The spine has four raised bands. Written directly onto the spine in the second panel in black ink manuscript, now faded, are the words: Gesta Romanorum 1489. At the base of the spine are the remains of a library label with a number written in ink manuscript. Size: 285 x 205mm. Leaf size: 281 x 200mm.
Provenance
Coloured 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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