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[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

Level: Item

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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