COLLECTION NAME:
Early Printing Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL22010011
Reference Number:
R235284
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
Manuscript inscriptions on title page
Parent Work Title:
Biblia cu[m] Concordantiis Ueteris et Noui testame[n]ti: Sanctus Hieronimus interpres biblie
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Bible. Latin. Vulgate. 1497
Creator:
Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420
Creator Role:
Translator
Creator:
Gilbert, de La Porrée, approximately 1075-1154
Creator Role:
Contributor
Creator:
Bruno, Gabriello, active 1480-1514
Creator Role:
Contributor
Creator:
Grüninger, Johann, -1532?
Creator Role:
Printer
Date Created:
1497-04-26
Publication Details:
Strassburg: Johann Reinhard Grüninger
Page/Sheet:
Title page
Description:
Four line note written at head of page in a very neat early seventeenth-century hand, possibly by Laurence Langley: "Neq[ue] nat[a]e sunt hereses & qu[a]eda[m] dogmata peruersitatis illaqueantia ... 1609" [the end of the lines partially cropped by binder]. Large woodcut illustration in two compartments, representing St. Jerome in the desert and in his study; with four elegiac couplets below. Written at foot of woodcut illustration: "Laurentius Langley. 160[9]" [possibly Lawrence Langley (b. 1570), who matriculated at Brasenose, Oxford in 1588]. Written beneath wooduct: "James Hyet" [unidentified; Alumni Oxonienses lists two James Hyet's, one who matriculated in 1583/4, the other who matriculated at St. John's College in 1597/8; Alumni Cantabrigienses lists one James Hiet who matriculated at Peterhouse in 1607].
Language:
Latin
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Sub-Category:
Inscriptions
Technique Used:
Woodcut (process)
Technique Used:
Handwriting
Medium:
Ink
Support:
Paper
Creation Site:
France: Grand Est: Strasbourg
Item Height:
276 mm
Item Width:
200 mm
Provenance:
Langley, Lawrence, 1570-, former owner
Provenance:
Hyet, James, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
JRL22010011
