[Mirabilia vel potius historia et descriptio urbis Romae]
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Type of record: Book
Title: [Mirabilia vel potius historia et descriptio urbis Romae]
Other titles: Mirabilia Romae
Classmark: BC Incunabula/MIR
Additional creator(s): Silber, Eucharius (1480-1510) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Silber, Eucharius; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Eucharius Silber
Publication city: [Rome]
Date(s): [24 January 1491]
Language: Italian
Size and medium: [60] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/60348
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007757499705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A-G⁸ H⁴.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed with 22 long lines to a full page.
At the head of leaf A4r is an heraldic woodcut containing the arms of the Holy Roman Emperor, the Pope (Alexander VI), and the City of Rome.
On leaf A3v is a full-page woodcut depicting Romulus and Remus being fed by the wolf with St. Sylvia praying behind them and the City of Rome in the background.
There are seven further full-page woodcuts representing St. John the Evangelist, St. Peter, St. Paul, the Virgin and Child, St Laurentius, St. Sebastian and the Crucifixion.
Two ornamental woodcut initials.
Indexed in: ISTC no. im00597000.
Indexed in: Goff M597.
Features
There are various notes in pencil manuscript on the front pastedown giving details of the edition.
This copy is wanting the first two leaves.
Bindings
Late nineteenth-century binding of crushed crimson goatskin over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are decorated with a border of gold-tooled double fillets separated by a blind-tooled single fillet. The turn-ins are decorated with the same design and the board edges with a single gold-tooled fillet. The spine has five raised bands each decorated with gold-tooled and blind-tooled fillets. At the top and bottom of the spine are small gold-tooled fleurons. Gold-tooled on the spine are the words: Mirabilia Rome Modus conf. Conj. demonum. Orat. S. Brigida Orat. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the words: Romæ Planck. 1499. Size: 134 x 103mm. Leaf size: 129 x 94mm.
Provenance
Written in black ink manuscript at the base of A3r: Liberato Cuccitelli.
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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