Liber de scriptoribus ecclesiasticis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trithemius, Johannes, 1462-1516

Contributor:

Johannes, de Lapide, approximately 1425-1496.

Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Printed Binding Waste Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Catholic authors--Bibliography--Early.

Catholic authors.

Genre:

Bibliographies.

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Franciscans (Ingolstadt, Germany) (former owner) (inscription)

Physical Description:

6 unnumbered leaves2 unnumbered leaves (the last leaf blank) ; 29 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: De scriptoribus ecclesiasticis

Fingerprint:

2009 5549 r.n. uoda (3) 1494 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Basel] : [Johann Amerbach], [after 28 Aug. 1494]

Notes:

Title from title leaf (leaf A1r); author named in dedicatory letter on leaf A1v.

Edited by Johannes de Lapide. Cf. ISTC.

Imprint from ISTC. "The printer is named in the dedicatory letter"--ISTC. (Dedicatory letter dated at end: Ex domo Cart[husiensi]. Basi[liensi]. v. Calen[das]. Septembris Anno domini Mil[lesimo].CCCC.XCIIII.)

Chancery folio. Leaf a2v: 51 lines, plus headline; area of text: 221 (231) x 136 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords.

Signatures: A⁶ a-d⁸/⁶ e-f⁸ g-u⁶/⁸ (leaf u8 blank).

"[Folio] 126 misnumbered 123"--Walsh. A variant: f. 126 numbered correctly.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy is variant in which f. 126 is numbered correctly.

Leaf size: 278 x 200 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied in red; paragraph mark, capital stroke and underline supplied in red on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy has a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on title leaf; a few early ms. annotations in brown ink in text.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.

Penn Libraries copy has ms. ownership inscription ("Ad Bibl PP. franciscanorum Ingolstadii") of the Franciscan monastery in Ingolstadt, Germany (founded 1257, secularized 1803) in brown ink on title leaf.

Penn Libraries copy bound in portions of two folio paper leaves from an incunable edition of Justinian's Institutiones with the glossa ordinaria of Accursius (Venice: Battista Torti, 22 Dec. 1484; ISTC ij00527000), printed in red and black in double columns surrounded by gloss. Left board: leaf h1 (recto visible, with early ms. annotations, underlines and manicules in brown ink). Right board: leaf h2 (recto visible, with early ms. annotations in brown ink). Remains of finding tab affixed to fore-edge of leaf a1.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at all margins with damage to ms. initial on leaf f6v; a few wormholes in fore-edge margin of leaves A1-f4; wormhole in inner margin of leaves A1-b1.

Cited in:

Goff T-452

BM 15th cent. III, p. 755 (IB.37368)

GW M47578

BN cat. des incun. T-327

BSB-Ink. T-459

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 1182

ISTC it00452000

OCLC:

64744414