De responsione mundi et de astrorum ordinatione.

Accession number:

PML 127

Author:

Isidore, of Seville, Saint, -636.

Published:

Augsburg : Günther Zainer, 7 December 1472.

Description:

[20] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Notes:

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/1r): Isidori iunioris. Hispalensis episcopi prologus in librum de responsione mundi & astrorum ordinatione ad. Sesibutum rege[m] incipit feliciter.
Colophon (leaf [2]/10r): DEO.GRACIAS. Liber sancti ysidori e[pisco]pi de responsio[n]e mu[[n]di & astror[um] ordinatione finit felicit[ur] p[er]. Ginteru[m] Zainer de retulinge[n]. Civem augustensem. Anno d[omi]ni .m.cccc.lxxii. Mensis decembris. Die septia.
Collation: [1⁸(+2*) 2¹⁰(+9*)]: 20 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
5 woodcut diagrams in text.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.8 x 20.1 cm.
PML copy misbound, in this order: [1]/1-2*, [2]/4-9*, [1]/3-[2]/3, [2]/10.
PML copy listed under Division A in the Checklist.

Binding:

19th-century gilt-tooled brown calf with Sykes armorial over paper boards (30.4 x 20.4 cm). Red paper pastedowns and fly leaf, with plain paper fly leaves; gilt edges.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards. Annotations: No notations in text. Contemporary alpha-numerica quire signatures, beginning with D1 (i.e., formerly bound with another work before it).

Provenance:

Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), binding; his sale, Evans, part I, 11 May 1824, lot 1652, to Thorpe for £8.8; William G. Rowland, signature (second fly leaf recto); William H. Crawford (1815?-1888), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and Sykes sale note (second fly leaf verso); his sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 1698, to Quaritch for £4.4; William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and price code: d/wm/_ +___ (second fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Incunabula

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Inscriptions

Department:

Printed Books