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Corona beate Marie uirginis

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Type of record: Book

Title: Corona beate Marie uirginis

Other titles: Corona B. M. V; Corona beate Marie virginis

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula/MAR

Additional creator(s): Husner, Georg (1505) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Related people: Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint; Husner, Georg; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton

Publisher: Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)

Publication city: [Strassburg]

Date(s): [not after 1488]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: [2], LXXXIII, [1] leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/59024

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007768509705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Imprint from ISTC.


Signatures: a⁸ b-o⁶.


Printed in two columns with 47 lines to a full column.


Initial spaces with guide-letters.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00923000.


Indexed in: Goff C-923.

Features

Notes in black ink manuscript on the title page (a1r), mostly illegible but with a possible date of 1602.


Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.


Some worm damage.


Bindings


Binding of marbled paper over pasteboard, probably nineteenth-century. The marbled paper features the spot pattern in brown and blue. At the head of the smooth spine is a blue paper label on which is written, in black ink manuscript: [?] Alemanni Corona Beatae Mariae Virginis - (1490). Size: 296 x 220mm. Leaf size: 286 x 204 mm.

Provenance

Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.


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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