Mammotrectus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marchesinus, Johannes.

Contributor:

Printer of the 1483 Vitas Patrum, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Mammotrectus super Bibliam

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bible--Handbooks, manuals, etc--Early works to 1800.

Bible.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--Early works to 1800.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Incunabula.

Bearer impressions (Printing) -- France -- Strasbourg -- 15th century.

Clasps (Binding)

Wooden boards (Binding)

Fingerprint:

j.et j.i. c-io guie (3) 1485 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[Strasbourg] : [Printer of the 1483 'Vitas Patrum'], [not after 3 Aug. 1485]

Notes:

Author's name supplied from ISTC.

Title from title leaf.

Imprint from ISTC. "Also recorded as Printer of Paludanus ... Printed in the types often attributed to the Printer of Paludanus (GfT 2154). Dated by Sack from an inscription in the copy in Brno"--ISTC.

Chancery folio, printed primarily in double columns. Leaf a3r: 46 lines to a full column, plus headline; area of text: 209 (222) x 132 mm.; col. width: 61 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Four lines of uninked bearer type at foot of right-hand column on leaf a3v.

Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁶ a-t⁸ v⁶.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy bound with: Hugo, Argentinensis. Compendium theoloyce veritatis. [Strasbourg : Martin Schott, not before 1481]. (Goff A-237)

Leaf size: 291 x 207 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has a few early ms. notes in brown ink in text; a few modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front and back pastedowns and title leaf; modern ms. note regarding missing leaves in pencil at foot of leaf t8v; partially illegible ms. notes in brown ink on front pastedown.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1923.

Penn Libraries copy has partially illegible dated 18th-century ms. ownership inscription ("Sum Joh. [...] 1777 d. 29. Dec.") on front pastedown.

Penn Libraries copy bound in contemporary full blind-tooled dark leather (spine rebacked) over square-edge wooden boards; evidence of 2 leather and metal clasps with metal catchplates; titles and imprint dates of works contained in this volume stamped in gold on spine; gold-stamped shelf-mark ("Inc 392") at foot of spine; portion of an early German ms. leaf used as binder's waste (inside left board); ms. head-edge title ("compendium theologi[a]e").

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaves v1, v2, v5, and v6 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: boards and pastedowns damaged; a few wormholes in leaves t5-v4; leaves v3-v4 mended at head- and fore-edges; lower portion of some leaves at end of volume dampstained.

Cited in:

Goff M-246

BM 15th cent. III, p. 860

GW M20807

BN cat. des incun. M-127

BSB-Ink. M-162

ISTC im00246000

OCLC:

714628915