Aeneas Siluius in Europam
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Aeneas Siluius in Europam
Other titles: In Europam; Aeneas Silvius in Europam
Classmark: BC Incunabula/PIU
Creator(s): Pius, pope (1405-1464)
Additional creator(s): Cristan, Michael (Editor); Kunne, Albrecht (fl. 1475-1519) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Cristan, Michael; Kunne, Albrecht; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Albrecht Kunne
Publication city: [Memmingen]
Date(s): [not after March 1491]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [86] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/96598
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008136109705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a⁶ b-l⁸.
Imprint from ISTC.
Edited by Michael Cristan.
Michael Cristan's letter to Otto von Sonnenberg on leaf a1v gives the printer's name and place of printing. Lines 19-21 read:... Albertus kunnen de Duderstat librorum impressor Memmingens[is] ad me detulit emendandum ...
Otto von Sonnenberg, the dedicatee, died in March 1491.
Printed with 33 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Leaf 1a is unsigned.
Leaf l8 is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. ip00727000.
Indexed in: Hain-Copinger 258; Goff P727.
Features
Very occasional lines in ink manuscript in the margins marking sections of the text.
The margins of the first three leaves are damaged and have been repaired.
Bindings
Late nineteenth- or early twentieth-century binding of half vellum and brown mottled paper over pasteboard. Written directly onto the smooth spine in black ink manuscript is the name: Aeneas Silvius. Size: 200 x 145mm. Leaf size: 195 x 135mm.
Provenance
Cutting from a sale catalogue on the front pastedown and underneath the price in pencil manuscript: £21.
Small blue and white armorial bookplate of Lord Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired after 17 June 1929 when Sir Edward Allen Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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