Gesta rhomanorum cu[m] applicationib[us] moralisatis ac misticis.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Husner, Georg, -1505, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Henry Charles Lea Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Gesta Romanorum.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Exempla--Early works to 1800.

Exempla.

Genre:

Incunabula.

Bevelled edge boards (Binding)

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Clasps (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Penn Provenance:

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909 (autograph) (Lea Library copy)

Bibliotheca S. Barbara (Bressanone, Italy) (former owner) (inscription) (Lea Library copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, XCIII leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Gesta rhomanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis ac misticis

Gesta romanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis ac misticis

Fingerprint:

j.v. xjj. ithi paQu (3) 1489 (R)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], Anno nostre salutis. M.cccclxxxix. In die sancti Sixti pape & martyris [6 August 1489]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf pi1r).

Place of printing and printer's name supplied from ISTC. Imprint date from colophon on leaf p7r, which reads: Ex gestis romano[rum] cum plirb[us] applicatis hystorijs de v[ir]tutib[us] & vicijs mystice ad intellectu[m] transsu[m]ptis recollectorij finis. Anno nostre salutis. M.cccclxxxix. In die sancti Sixti pape & martyris.

Signatures: pi⁸ a⁸ b-o⁶ p⁸ (leaf p8 blank).

Leaves pi2, pi3, pi4 and pi5 signed "2", "3", "4" and "5", respectively.

Chancery folio, printed in double columns. Leaf a1r: 46 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 206 (222) x 131 mm.; col. width: 63 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords.

Local Notes:

Lea Library copy bound with: Comestor, Petrus. Scholastica historia Magistri Petri comestoris sacre scripture serie[m] breue[m] nimis [et] expositam exponentis. Imp[re]ssa arge[n]tine ... : [Georg Husner], Anno salutis nostre Millesimo quingentesimo xv. die mensis Iulij [15 July 1500] (Goff P-466)

Leaf size: 283 x 194 mm.

Lea Library copy: rubrication: initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue; capital strokes supplied in red.

Lea Library copy has early ms. note ("Plera[que] sunt fabulola in hoc libro.") on title leaf; modern ms. note on the author in pencil (in the hand of Henry Charles Lea?) on title leaf; early ms. date ("Anno MDCLXII") on leaf pi8v; some early ms. marginal notes in text.

Lea Library copy has early ms. portrait bust of a crowned man beneath caption "Qu E R O" on leaf p8r.

Lea Library copy has dated 17th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Ex Bibl[io]t[he]ca[e] S. Barbara[e] Brixina[e]. 1662.") on title leaf.

Lea Library copy has autograph of Henry Charles Lea dated 1877 on title leaf of first work in volume.

Lea Library copy bound in full blind-tooled parchment(?) over beveled-edge wooden boards; 2 leather and metal fore-edge clasps with metal catchplates; 4 raised bands on spine; paper label with ms. titles on spine; titles ("Scolas. histo." in red and dark ink; "Gesta Romano[rum]" in dark ink) on tail edge; modern endpapers; portion of early parchment ms. leaf, probably from a gradual (with text and music for sequences for the Nativity of John the Baptist, the Ascension, and Corpus Christi, written in a gothic bookhand in dark ink with initials and bounding lines in red ink and 4-line staves, text and neumes in dark ink) used as binder's waste.

Lea Library copy: lower right portion of title leaf excised with no loss of text; remainder of leaf title leaf reinforced on recto and verso; leaf p8 damaged and reinforced on recto and verso.

Cited in:

Goff G-292

BM 15th cent. I, p. 139 (IB.1900)

GW 10897

BSB-Ink. G-210

ISTC ig00292000

OCLC:

187469213