[Dialogi]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Dialogi]
Other titles: Dialogi; Dialogorum libri quattuor
Classmark: BC Incunabula/GRE
Creator(s): Gregory, Pope (540-604)
Additional creator(s): Paganini, Geronimo (1492-1497) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Printer)
Related people: Johann; Manthen, Johann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: impensis Iohannis de Colonia & Ioha[n]nis manthen de Gherretzem; Johannes de Colonia and Johannes Manthen
Publication city: Opus presens... impressione[m] Venetiis habuit [Venice]
Date(s): M..cccc. .lxxv. [1475]
Language: Italian
Size and medium: 122 leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/51229
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007752119705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-n⁸ o¹⁰ p⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on o9v reads: Opus presens de sancto Gregorio papa hic finem facit quod sui bonitate impressione[m] Venetiis habuit impensis Iohannis de Colonia: & Ioha[n]nis manthen de Gherretzem..M. .cccc. .lxxv.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Leaves a1 and p6 are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ig00410000.
Indexed in: BMC V 231 (IA.20239); Goff G-410.
Features
The major initials at the start of each part of the Dialogi (on a2r, c7r, f6v and k7v) are decorated in red, green, blue and purple.
Other major initials supplied in red throughout.
Some paragraph markers supplied in red.
Capital strokes supplied in yellow throughout.
Wanting the first and last blank leaves and two leaves of signature a.
Bindings
Binding of grey and cream marbled paper over pasteboard with a vellum back. The leaves have been severely cropped and the book has red edges. Watermark of a scales within a circle. Size: 239 x 190mm. Leaf size: 224 x 178mm.
Provenance
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.
Access and usage
Access
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