Pauli Orosii viri doctissimi historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum
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Type of record: Book
Title: Pauli Orosii viri doctissimi historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum
Other titles: Historiarum adversus paganos libri VII
Classmark: BC Incunabula ORO
Creator(s): Orosius, Paulus
Additional creator(s): Volpi, Enea (Editor); Achates, Leonardus (1473-1497) (Printer); Cassano, Luigi Cassano Serra duca di (1747-1825) (Former owner); Spencer, George John Spencer Earl (1758-1834) (Former owner); Augustus Frederick Prince, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843) (Former owner); Bigsby, Robert (1806-1873) (Former owner); Bosworth, Joseph (1876) (Former owner); Rowe, Louis Thompson (1855-1927) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: [Leonardus Achates de Basilea]
Publication city: [Vicenza]
Date(s): [about 1482]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 106 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/60761
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007976179705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-m⁸ n¹⁰.
Imprint from ISTC.
Also recorded as [about 1489].
Colophon in verse on n10r reads: Vt ipse titulus margine in primo docet. Orosio nomen mihi est. Librario[rum] quicquid erroris fuit: Exemit Aeneas mihi. Meque imprimendum tradidit non alteri. Leonarde: q[uem] foli tibi. Leonarde nomen huius artis & decus. Tuæque laus Basiliæ. Quodsi situm orbis: sique nostra ad tempora. Ab orbis ipsa origine Quisq[uam] tumultus: bellaque: & cædes uelit. Cladesque nosse: me legat.
Edited by Aeneas Vulpes.
Printed with 38 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The first leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. io00097500.
Indexed in: Goff S-99; Hain 12300 [sic. i.e. 12100].
Features
Headlines added throughout in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.
Marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, probably seventeenth-century.
Bindings
Eighteenth-century binding of full calf over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a single line of double fillets near the joint with the spine. The spine has five raised bands and in the second panel is a pared brown leather lettering piece gold-tooled with a border of scallops and double fillets containing the words: Pavlvs Orosivs. Another pared leather lettering piece has been removed from the third panel. The other four panels are gold-tooled with an ornamental border and fleurons. The board edges are gold-tooled with a single fillet, now much worn. The pastedowns are of pink and cream marbled paper featuring the spot pattern. The upper cover is becoming detached from the spine at the joint. Size: 285 x 200mm. Leaf size: 275 x 188mm.
Provenance
Affixed to the front free endpaper of the book are various notes, letters and cuttings from sale catalogues detailing provenance and changes in ownership. They reveal that the book was in the possession of the Neapolitan nobleman the Duke of Cassano Serra (1747-1825) and afterwards passed into the library of George John, Earl Spencer (1758-1854). At a sale of duplicates from his library it was purchased by Dr Pettigrew on behalf of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843). Later it passed into the possession of the antiquarian Robert Bigsby (1806-1873) who presented it to the Reverend Joseph Bosworth (1789-1876), Professor of Anglo-Saxon at Christ Church, Oxford.
Unidentified oval armorial library stamp in black, partially rubbed out and indistinct, in the space left for the first initial on a2r.
The same oval armorial library stamp appears in the outer margin of leaf l7r.
Armorial bookplate of Augustus Frederick, Duke of Sussex on the front pastedown.
Armorial bookplate of Robert Bigsby on the recto of the first blank leaf (a1r).
Book label at the top of the front pastedown: From the library of Louis Thompson Rowe of XV Hammersmith Terrace, W.
Small blue 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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