COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL22310294
Reference Number:
R214380
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Binding of book
Parent Work Title:
Nonius Marcellus Festus Pompeius Varro
Alternative Parent Work Title:
De compendiosa doctrina. 1496
Creator:
Nonius Marcellus, active 4th century,
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Festus, Sextus Pompeius, active 2nd century
Creator:
Varro, Marcus Terentius
Creator:
Leto, Giulio Pomponio, 1428-1497
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Rolandello, Francesco, 1427-1490
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Pinzi, Filippo, active 1490-1530
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
1496-05-17
Publication Details:
Venice: Philippus Pincius
Page/Sheet:
Inner upper cover
Description:
From the library of Count Giacomo Manzoni (1816-1889), minister of finance of the Roman Republic in 1849, linguist and philologist; his small bookplate on upper left corner of inner upper cover (two circles, one inscribed 'Ex libris Jacobi Manzoni', the other with crest armorial of a demi bull salient out of a comital coronet). Manzoni's library was sold in Rome in 1893; this copy lot 3683 in sale catalogue 'Catalogue de la bibliothèque de feu M. le comte Jacques Manzoni' (Città di Castello: S. Lapi, 1892-4), pt. 2, p. 107. Bookplate followed by manuscript number "3683" in red ink on inner upper cover. Clipping of entry for this copy from Manzoni sale catalogue attached to the inner upper cover. Full bifolium leaf of manuscript waste as front pastedown: probably Italy, twelfth-thirteenth century, on parchment, each leaf originally folded in half to produce four pages (with sewing holes), containing Latin text (possibly the Ordo Missae) written in a Carolingian script in black ink with initial letters and some text in red ink, with some later Latin annotations.
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Books--Provenance
Subject:
Bookbinding
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Sub-Category:
Bookplates
Sub-Category:
Bindings
Sub-Category:
Annotations
Technique Used:
Printing (process)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Support:
Parchment
Creation Site:
Italy: Veneto: Venezia: Venice
Item Height:
330 mm
Item Width:
225 mm
Provenance:
Herolimo, Joannes, former owner
Provenance:
Manzoni, Giacomo, conte, 1816-1889, former owner
Provenance:
Christie, Richard Copley, 1830-1901, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
Educational Notes:
Incunabula Cataloguing Project (Provenance), 2021-2025
Academic Project Lead:
Julianne Simpson
Academic Project Lead:
John Gandy
Academic Project Lead:
Ed Potten
JRL22310294
