[Postilla super totam Bibliam].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nicholas, of Lyra, approximately 1270-1349

Contributor:

Locatelli, Boneto, active 1486-1523, printer.

Scotto, Ottaviano, -1498, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Postillae perpetuae

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible--Commentaries--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Genre:

Commentaries.

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Block, Gordon A. (donor)

Block, Reba Fleisher (honoree)

Block Bible Collection

Capuchins (former owner) (inscription)

Grier, Albert M. (bookplate)

Physical Description:

3 volumes (418 unnumbered leaves, 354 unnumbered leaves, 328 unnumbered leaves) ; 33 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

caqr mier itci poOn (C) 1488 (Q) v.2

Place of Publication:

Impressa Venetijs : [Bonetus Locatellus] : Opera & impensa Octauiani Scoti Modoetie[n]sis, Anno salutifere incarnatio[n]is MoCCCCLXXXVIII, quinto Idus Augusti [9 Aug. 1488]

Notes:

Title from Goff.

Printer's name from ISTC; remainder of imprint from colophon at end of v. 3, which reads: Explicit postilla fr[atr]is Nicolai de lira ordi[ni]s minoru[m] in apocalypsim Impressa Venetijs. opera & impensa Octauiani Scoti Modoetie[n]sis. Anno salutifere incarnatio[n]is. Mo.CCCC.LXXXVIII. Quinto Idus Augusti.

"In three parts. I-II) undated; III) 9 Aug. 1488"--ISTC.

Median folio, printed in double columns. Leaf 2a1r: 59 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 218 (230) x 138 mm.; col. width: 65 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for illustrations. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: v. 1: 1-24¹⁰ 25-26⁸ 27⁶ 28-29⁸ 30-43¹⁰ (the first leaf blank) ; v. 2: 2a-2l¹⁰ 2m⁸ 2A-2Y¹⁰ 2Z⁸ 2[et]⁸ (leaf 2A1 blank); v. 3: a-n¹⁰ o⁸ p⁶ q-z¹⁰ [et]¹⁰ [con]¹⁰ [rum]¹⁰ A-F¹⁰ G⁸ H⁶ (leaf a1 blank).

Vol. 1: incipit of first prologue reads: Primus prologus Nicolai de lira de [com]mendatione sacre scripture in generali.

Vol. 2: text begins (leaf 2a1r): Postilla venerabilis fratris. Nicolai [de] Lira super psalterium incipit feliciter.

Vol. 3: text begins (leaf a2r): Fratris Nicolai de lira ordinis fratrum mino[rum] i[n] quattuor eua[n]gelia. Prologus incipit.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 313 x 212 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: 4-line illuminated and colored initial P with floriate extensions on leaf 2a1r; other initials supplied in red or blue.

Penn Libraries copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown; ms. shelf-mark(?) in fore-edge margin of leaf 2a1r; a few early ms. underlines and notes in brown ink on leaves 2d8v-2d9r, 2q6r and 2q7r; signature mark supplied in brown ink on leaf 2T4r.

Presented to the Penn Libraries by Gordon A. Block, Jr., in memory of his mother, Reba Fleisher Block.

Penn Libraries copy has laid in (formerly affixed to front pastedown) illustrated bookplate of Albert M. Grier; partially illegible early ms. ownership inscription ("Capuccino[rum] Seraualli[?]") of a Capuchin house written over an earlier illegible inscription (the latter struck through) at foot of leaf a1r surrounding a small round colored miniature of the Crucifixion (Christ crucified on a dark background within a decorative purple rondel surrounded by a garland of green leaves); armorial bearings of an unidentified former owner in tail margin of leaf 2a1v.

Penn Libraries copy has laid in 2 typescript paper sheets, one of bibliographical information about this copy, the other of biographical information about Nicholas of Lyra.

Penn Libraries copy bound in modern marbled paper boards; red morocco spine label with title and volume number ("LYRA POSTILLA II") stamped in gold;

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: v. 2 only.

Penn Libraries copy: backstrip partially detached from spine.

Penn Libraries copy: portion of tail margin of leaf 2a6 torn off and replaced with a blank leaf; tail outer corner of leaf 2a10 torn off; head outer corner of leaf 2k9 torn off; leaf 2[et]8 damaged and mended at all margins; several leaves at end of volume dampstained.

Cited in:

Goff N-132

GW M26546

BN cat. des incun. N-78

BSB-Ink. N-116

Hain *10365

IGI 6823

ISTC in00132000

OCLC:

228711800