[Psalterium latinum]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Psalterium latinum]
Other titles: Bible
Classmark: BC Incunabula/PSA
Additional creator(s): Printer of the Formularium Instrumentorum (Printer); Bandini, Angelo Maria (1726-1803) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Printer of the Formularium Instrumentorum; Bandini, Angelo Maria; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: Printer of the "Formularium Instrumentorum"
Publication city: [Rome]
Date(s): [about 1480]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [144] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/96767
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008135849705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: [a-s⁸].
Leaf 1a: Calendar: Januarius habet dies xxxi. luno. xxx. nox hores xvi.
Printed with 24 long lines to a full page.
Initial spaces, no guide-letters.
Features
Occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, fifteenth-century.
At the end of the book are two leaves of closely written black ink manuscript, late fifteenth-century.
Leaf numbers have been supplied in pencil manuscript, twentieth-century, at the top right of rectos.
Initials have been supplied alternately in red and blue.
This copy is wanting leaves [b1] and [i5].
Bindings
Late fifteenth-century binding of dark brown sheep over wooden boards, rebacked. The upper and lower covers are blind-tooled with an identical design comprising a border and frames of quadruple fillets, the outer frame containing a repeating pattern of stylised foliage. The central panel is blind-tooled with an interlace design. The new goatskin spine has three raised bands. Inserted in the second panel is a section of the old spine on which are gold-tooled the words: Psalterium latinum. Fixed to the base of the spine is a section of the old spine on which is gold-tooled: c. 1480. The third panel contains the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold, on a section of the old spine. There is evidence of the book having been fastened with a single clasp. catching on the lower board. A note by the binder D.C. & Son, dated July 1958 and giving details of conditon when received and treatment given, is pasted into the back of the book. Size: 121 x 87mm. Leaf size: 111 x 76mm.
Provenance
Book label at the foot of the first printed leaf: Ex Bibliotheca Can. Angeli M. Bandini.
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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Profile: Angelo Maria Bandini (1726-1803)
Biography of Angelo Maria Bandini, who is associated with the incunabula held in Special Collections at Leeds University Library.