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De laniis & phitonicis mulieribus

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Type of record: Book

Title: De laniis & phitonicis mulieribus

Other titles: De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus; De laniis et phitonicis mulieribus

Level: Item

Classmark: BC Incunabula/MOL

Creator(s): Molitor, Ulrich (fl. 1470-1501)

Additional creator(s): Sigmund archduke of Austria (1427-1496) (Other); Prüss, Johann (1510) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Related people: Sigmund; Prüss, Johann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton

Publisher: Johann Prüss

Publication city: [Strassburg]

Date(s): [not before 10 January 1489]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: [28] leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/60479

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007775119705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: a-b⁸ c-d⁶.


Imprint from ISTC.


BMC dates the book to about 1488-93.


Title taken from leaf a1r.


Introductory letter addressed to Sigmund, Archduke of Austria.


Leaf a2r: Tractat[us] ad illustrissimu[m] principem d[omi]n[u]m Sigismundum archiducem austrie. Stirie carinthie [etcetera] de lanijs [et] phitonicis mulieribus per Ulricum molitoris de constantia. studij papiensis. decretorum doctorem [et] curie constantien[um] causarum patronum. ad honore[m] eiusde[m] principis ac sub sue celsitudinis eme[n]datio[n]e scriptis.


Text written in the form of a dialogue.


Text dated and signed at the end (leaf d5v): anno d[omi]ni.m.cccc.lxxxix.die decima ianuarij. Tue celsitudinis humilis co[n]siliarius [et] seruulus vlricus molitoris de consta[n]tia decreto[rum] doctor.


There are six full-page woodcuts designed for the book and measuring about 120 x 75mm on a4v, a7r, b2v, b4v, c1r, d1r. A larger woodcut measuring 135 x 92mm of a procession for exorcism from De miseria curatorum appears on a1v.


Printed with 35 long lines to a full page.


The final leaf is blank.


Indexed in: ISTC no. im00794000.


Indexed in: Hain. Repertorium 11535; Schramm. Bilderschmuck d. Frühdr., v.20, p. 27; Proctor, 562; BMC I 126 (IA. 1723; dated: [about 1488-1493]); Goff. Third census, M-794.

Features

The major initial on a2r has been supplied in red on a gold ground and decorated in blue.


Leaf b4 and the final blank leaf are missing.


Bindings


Binding of full parchment. Written directly onto the spine in black ink manuscript are the words: De Laniis et phitonicis - Molitor - Coloniae, c. 1490. Size: 199 x 147mm. Leaf size: 190 x 140mm.

Provenance

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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