Mammotrectus
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Mammotrectus
Other titles: Mammotrectus super Bibliam
Classmark: BC Incunabula/MAM
Creator(s): Marchesinus, Johannes
Additional creator(s): Printer of the 1483 Vitas Patrum (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Printer of the 1483 Vitas Patrum; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Printer of the 1483 "Vitas Patrum"
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): [not after 3 August 1485]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [17], CLV leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/58981
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007768189705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [1]⁸ [2]⁶ a-t⁸ v⁶.
Imprint from ISTC.
Colophon on v6r reads: Liber expositorius toti[us] biblie: ac alio[rum] que in ecclesia recitant[us]. qui ma[m]motrectus appellat[us] feliciter explicit.
Printer also recorded as [Printer of Paludanus].
The Frankfurt copy has a buyer's inscription of 1485.
Printed in two columns with 46 lines to a full column.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00246000.
Indexed in: Goff M246; HC 10553; Pell Ms 7626 (7531); CIBN M-127; Hillard 1321; Polain(B) 2603; IBE 3814; IBP 3593; Sajó-Soltész 2174; Mendes 832; Coll(U) 1008; Madsen 2651; Voull(B) 2265; Schüling 574; Ohly-Sack 1878, 1879; Sack(Freiburg) 2339; Borm 1773; Hunt 250; BMC III 860.
Features
Major initials supplied and decorated inconsistently in red.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied inconsistently in red.
Occasional underlinings in red.
Some water damage.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Binding of dark brown calf over wooden boards, restored. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frame of triple fillets containing a repeating pattern of stylised foliage. The central panel is decorated with blind-tooled tracery containing fleurons. The spine has three raised bands and is decorated wtih blind-tooled ornamentation. The book is fastened with a single decorated metal clasp, the catch on the upper board and the strap restored. Written in black ink manuscript on the head-edge: Ma[m]otrectus. Losses to the head and tail of the spine and the lower cover have been replaced. Size: 305 x 218mm. Leaf size: 293 x 204mm.
Provenance
The remains of a purple oval library stamp, rubbed out and now indistinct, are visible at the base of the first leaf of the table and on the final printed leaf (v6r) beneath the colophon.
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.
Access and usage
Access
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