Incipit p[ro]cessus iudiciarius eximij doctoris iuris canonici Johannis de Urbach
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Type of record: Book
Title: Incipit p[ro]cessus iudiciarius eximij doctoris iuris canonici Johannis de Urbach
Other titles: Processus judiciarius; Incipit processus iudiciarius eximii doctoris iuris canonici Johannis de Urbach
Classmark: BC Incunabula/PRO
Creator(s): Auerbach, Johannes (fl. 1405)
Additional creator(s): Printer of the 1483 Vitas Patrum (Printer); Owen, E (Former owner); Morris, William (1834-1896) (Former owner); Dunn, George (1864-1912) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Printer of the 1483 Vitas Patrum; Owen, E; Morris, William; Dunn, George; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Printer of the 1483 "Vitas Patrum"
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): [about 1485]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [144] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/96756
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008135689705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: A-S⁸ T⁶.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in two columns with 43 lines to a full column.
Leaf t1 is signed T1.
Printed headlines.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Paragraph markers, capital strokes and underlinings supplied in red.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations.
Notes in pencil manuscript, twentieth-century, on the recto of the front free endpaper giving details of the edition.
The first major initial on a23r is supplied and decorated in blue and red.
Major initials supplied and decorated in blue and red throughout, many with pen ornamentation extending into the margins.
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century binding of dark brown calf over bevelled wooden boards, rebacked. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with a border and frames of quadruple fillets inside which are repeating patterns of stylised foliage and teardrop- and lozenge-shaped tools of varying sizes. There are diagonal quadruple fillets within the central panel surrounded with teardrop-shaped tools and flowers. The spine has three raised bands. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Processus Judicarius - J de Arbach. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Argent c. 1485. The other panels are blind-tooled with diagonal quadruple fillets and flowers. The book is fastened with two decorated metal clasps with replaced leather straps, the catch on the upper cover. There are leather tabs on the fore-edge marking sections of the text. Watermarks throughout including the Gothic letter P with a forked stem surmounted with a quatrefoil or a trefoil, and a hand. Size: 295 x
210mm. Leaf size: 278 x 195mm.
Provenance
On the verso of the final printed leaf (t5v) are copious notes in black ink manuscript, probably by the first owner, dated 1488. More notes in the same hand are written on the verso of the final blank leaf, on the verso of the back free endpaper and on the back pastedown.
Written in black ink manuscript on the front pastedown are an autograph and date: E. Owen 1845.
Book label on the front pastedown: From the library of William Morris Kelmscott House Hammersmith.
Book label on the front pastedown: From the library of George Dunn of Woolley Hall near Maidenhead.
Coloured 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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Profile: George Dunn (1864-1912)
Biography of George Dunn, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.
Profile: William Morris (1834-1896)
Biography of William Morris, who is associated with works held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.