COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL22310284
Reference Number:
R131030
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Manuscript inscriptions on flyleaf
Parent Work Title:
Lombardica hystoria que a plerisq[ue] Aurea legenda sancto[rum] appellatur..
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Legenda aurea. 1496
Creator:
Jacobus, de Voragine, approximately 1229-1298
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Celtis, Konrad, 1459-1508
Creator:
Schreyer, Sebald, 1446-1520
Creator:
Koberger, Anton, approximately 1440-1513
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
1496-04-02
Publication Details:
Nuremberg: Anton Koberger
Page/Sheet:
Front flyleaf [recto]
Description:
Manuscript inscriptions on front flyleaf recto: (1) Dedicatory verse in a seventeenth century hand "[symbol] Quid ualet argentum quidue annis uiuere cent / Post miserum funus puluis, et umbra sumg[?] / Hominis fortuna, uarian[tur?] ad imagines Tuna[?] / Crescit, decreseit in code[m] sistere nescit. / Pampas mundanas animaduertes homo uanas / Quaere q[uod] c'.[?] et erit, nam status iste perit. / O meme[n]to mori / Annumeror Libris Jacobj Grobij Creb:[?] / Syluaniensis" [Jacobus Grobius not identified, Sylvaniensis is possibly the old canton of Unterwalden (now Nidwalden), Switzerland]; (2) In a late fifteenth century hand "[name illegible] Ao. 1496".
Language:
Latin
Subject:
Books--Provenance
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Sub-Category:
Inscriptions
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
Germany: Bavaria: Nuremberg
Item Height:
275 mm
Item Width:
215 mm
Provenance:
Bach, Matthias vom, active 1658-1663, former owner
Provenance:
Grobius, Jacobus, active 17th century, former owner
Provenance:
Oth, Joannes Martinus, active 1616, former owner
Provenance:
Kloster Kreuzlingen, 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
JRL22310284
