Incipit liber dyalogorum beati Gregory ad petrum diaconum suum
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Type of record: Book
Title: Incipit liber dyalogorum beati Gregory ad petrum diaconum suum
Other titles: Dialogi; Liber dyalogorum; Dialogorum libri quattuor
Classmark: BC Incunabula/GRE
Creator(s): Gregory, Pope (540-604)
Additional creator(s): Wiener, Johann (1475-1479) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Benedict, Saint, Abbot of Monte Cassino; Wiener, Johann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Johann Wiener
Publication city: [Augsburg]
Date(s): [1475-79]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: Lxxxvj leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/55916
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007750499705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from ISTC.
Also recorded as [about 1477].
Printed with 38 long lines to a full page.
No signatures.
Leaves numbered at the top right of versos and rectos.
Initial spaces before each book and the speeches of Petrus, some with guide-letters.
Woodcut initials before the speeches of Gregory.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ig00401000.
Indexed in: Goff G-401.
Features
Marginal annotations in red and black ink manuscript, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century, many cropped.
Some of the woodcut initials have been coloured in red and green.
Several major initials supplied and decorated in red and blue.
Other major initials supplied in black ink manuscript.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red for leaves j-iij only.
Bindings
Nineteenth- or twentieth-century half binding of brown pigskin with marbled paper over pasteboard. The marbled paper features the curl pattern in red, yellow, blue and cream. The spine has five raised bands. Stamped in black in the second panel are the words: Dialogi Libri IV. Stamped in black in the third panel is the name: Gregorius Magnus. Stamped at the base of the spine are the words: Augsburg J. Wiener c. 1476. In the fourth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. The leaf edges are coloured green. Size: 258 x 200mm. Leaf size: 250 x 190mm.
Provenance
Written in black ink manuscript at the top of the first leaf: Biblioth. Fran. Min. Conv. Herbipol. The book was once in the possession of the Franciscan Friars Minor of Würzburg.
Small black and white 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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