Liber moralitatum elegantissimus magnaru[m] rerum naturalium Lumen anime dictus : cum septem apparitoribus necnon sanctoru[m] doctoru[m] orthodoxe fidei professorum poetarum etiam ac oratoru[m] auctoritatib[us] per modum pharatre s[ecundu]m ordinem alphab...
Imprint:
Augsburg: [Günther Zainer, 31 Dec. 1477]
Comments
and Notes:
Listed incorrectly as L393 in ISTC AND as being in the Burndy Library
Title from incipit (leaf [2] recto); imprint from Goff.
Date from colophon (leaf [348] recto), which reads: Annoq[ue] a natinitate [sic] d[omi]ni millesimo quadringentesimo septuagesimo septimo, ultima die Decembris ... co[m]pletus.
Compiled by Bérenger, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela; edited by Matthias Farinator.
Leaves are unsigned and lack numbering; 43-44 lines per page.
Leaves [1] and [49] are blank.
Guide letters; initials.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Extensively rubricated, with many manuscript initials.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... Gift of Bern Dibner.
Contemporary binding of blind-tooled full calf over boards; metal clasps; raised bands; rubricated library shelf mark pasted on front cover; paste-down endpapers are leaves from unidentified contemporary printed text; in protective clamshell box.
German bookseller's description ([5] p.) laid in.
Smithsonian
Call Number:
AE2 .L95 1477
ISTC
Goff
Hain-Copinger
GW
Proctor
Polain
UKBYIB00341500-B
L-0394
0
0
0
Author:
[N/A]
Short
Title:
Lumen animae
(1482)
Title:
Liber moralitatum elegantissimus magnarum reru[m] naturalium Lumen anime dict[us] : cum septe[m] apparitorib[us] necno[n] sanctoru[m] doctoru[m] orthodoxe fidei p[ro]fessorum poetaru[m] etia[m] ac oratoru[m] auctoritatib[us] p[er] modum pharatre s[e]c[un]...
Imprint:
Strasbourg: [Printer of the 1481 'Legenda Aurea', 22 March 1482]
Comments
and Notes:
Title from incipit (leaf [2] recto); place of publication and printer's statement from Goff.
Compiled by Bérenger, Archbishop of Santiago de Compostela; edited by Matthias Farinator.
Date from colophon, which reads: Anno a natiuitate domini millesimo quadrige[n]tesimo octuagesimo secundo sexta feria post Letare.
Leaves [1] and [274] are blank.
Printed in double columns, with 43 lines per column; leaves are unsigned and lack numbering.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Imperfect copy: leaves [1] and [274] are lacking; leaf [273] also possibly lacking? (foliation is unclear: Hain records [272] leaves; Polain and BM record [274] leaves)
Ms. initials and marginal notes.
Bound in full vellum over boards; title inked on spine; blue edges.
Bookplate: Burndy Library ... Gift of Bern Dibner.