[Vocabularius praedicantium]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Vocabularius praedicantium]
Classmark: BC Incunabula/MEL
Creator(s): Melber, Johannes
Additional creator(s): Zeninger, Conrad (1480-1489) (Printer); Suess, Heinricus (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Zeninger, Conrad; Suess, Heinricus; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Conrad Zeninger
Publication city: [Nuremberg]
Date(s): [1481-82]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [171] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/60323
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007773589705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from ISTC.
Compiled by Johannes Melber from the lectures of Jodocus Eichmann.
Hain ascribes the printing of this book to Peter Wagner of Nuremberg who printed an edition of this work in 1483. The British Museum ascribes it to Conrad Zeninger.
Printed with 34 long lines to a full page.
Without foliation, signatures or catchwords.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Leaves 1, 170 and 171 are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00460000.
Indexed in: Goff M460; Hain 11024.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations in black and red ink manuscript, fifteenth- or sixteenth-century.
The major initial on the first printed leaf is supplied in red and decorated in black.
Other major initials supplied in red.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.
Some worm damage.
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century German binding of full calf over wooden boards. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border of double fillets with triple diagonal fillets from corner to corner. The upper cover is further decorated with four lozenges containing winged lions and birds, possibly eagles, smaller lozenges containing a heart transpierced by an arrow and surmounted with a crown, and circles enclosing floral motifs. The lower cover is decorated with four ovals containing stylised foliage and small lozenges containing a heart transpierced by an arrow and surmounted with a crown. The spine has two raised bands and at the top of spine is a paper label with writing in ink manuscript, now indistinct. On the upper cover are the remains of a rectangular paper label with the title of the work in black ink manuscript. The back pastedown is of paper with fifteenth-century writing in black ink manuscript. There is evidence of the book having once been fastened with a single clasp
catching on the upper board. Holes and nails in the upper and lower covers suggest that several pieces of metal furniture were once attached at the centre and at the corners of both boards. There is a loss to the head of the spine revealing the endband and the base of the spine is becoming loose. The upper and lower boards are becoming detached from the spine at the joints. Size: 226 x 165mm. Leaf size: 215 x 160mm.
Provenance
On the verso of the front free endpaper is an inscription in red ink manuscript with a date: Frater Heinricus Suess 1515.
At the base of the first printed leaf is an oval library stamp in purple, partially rubbed out and now indistinct.
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.
Access and usage
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