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mei/00560627 Inc.3.B.3.78[1622] [00560627]

Cambridge, University Library (GB) : Inc.3.B.3.78[1622]

ISTC No.ij00212000
AuthorJacobus Philippus de Bergamo
TitleSupplementum chronicarum
ImprintVenice : Bernardinus Rizus, Novariensis, 15 Feb. 1492/93
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectHistory
KeywordsLiterature-social
Periodcontemporary

Description of Copy

Copy Id00560627
Holding InstitutionCambridge, University Library (GB)
CollectionInc.2-7
ShelfmarkInc.3.B.3.78[1622]
NoteTitle from title page on leaf a1 recto.
Caption at incipit on leaf a2 recto reads as follows: Opus preclarum Supplementum chro/nicarum vulgo appellatu[m] : in omnimoda historia nouissime congesta fratris Jacobiphilippi Bergomensis religionis heremitarum diui Augustini decoris : q[uam] faustissime inchoat.
Imprints from colophon on leaf F8 verso, which reads in full: Impressum autem Venetijs per magistrum Bernardinu[m] riçium de Nouaria : anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij : regnante inclyto duce Augustino barbadico.
Woodcut illustrations and initials throughout. Most of the illustrations and initials from Bernardinus Benalius's 1486 edition (ISTC ij00210000), including two half-page representations of the Expulsion from Paradise and Cain slaying Abel on leaves a3 verso and a4 verso respectively, and over 60 small woodcut city views, including repeats. The half-page cut of the Tower of Babel on leaf a6 verso and the city-views of Genoa, Rome, Verona, and Venice on leaves c3 verso, f8 recto, i6 verso, and t2 recto, are from his 1490 edition (ISTC ij00211000). Rizus also added woodcut borders on leaves a1 verso and a2 recto from cuts that had appeared earlier that same year in the Italian Legenda Aurea printed by Bonellis (ISTC ij00179000), and the frontispiece of Creation on leaf a1 verso and a small woodcut of Noah's ark on leaf a5 verso from the Bible in Italian printed by Malermi in 1490 (ISTC ib00644000)
Woodcut printer's device B on leaf F8v. For Rizus's device B, see BM 15th cent., V, 400.
Printed running titles and foliation with leaf 185 mistakenly foliated 85.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-F⁸ ²A-²B⁶. Leaf a1 unsigned.
Title page, a1r; Creation woodcut, a1v; Jacobus Philippus Foresti de Bergamo. Supplementum chronicarum, [Liber primus], continuing until the year 1490, a1r-F8v; Jacobus Philippus Foresti de Bergamo. [Editorial note], dated 15th October 1486, and giving the age of the author as 52, F8v; colophon, F8vr; printer's register and device, F8v; Orlandinus Glerolus. [Verse], caption "Orlandini gleroli Brixiani disticum", incipit "Mendosis fueram numeris que sordida nuper / Prodeo cum tota culta tabella fide", 18 elegiac distichs, ²A1r; Table of contents, ²A1r-²B5v; [Jacobus Philippus Foresti de Bergamo]. Prologus [dedicated to] the magistrates of Bergamo, ²B5v-²B6r.
BM 15th cent., V, 404
BN cat. des incun., J-144
Bod-inc, J-091
BSB-Ink, I-125 (with digital facsimile)
Essling, V. Masséna, prince d'. Les livres à figures vénitiens, 345
Goff, J212
GW, M10980 (with digital facsimiles)
Hain-Copinger, 2809*
ISTC, ij00212000
Oates, 1939
Sander, 919
[2], 256, [12] leaves :
Original item identifier in source database: 5349246

Provenance d. 1545

Provenance nameAthequa, George d', Bishop of Llandaff, d. 1545 [Person; Former Owner]

Provenance 1590-1649

Provenance nameHoldsworth, Richard, 1590-1649 [Person; Former Owner]

Provenance

PlaceCambridge (Geonames ID: 2653941)
Areae-uk-en
Provenance nameCambridge University Library [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)
NoteInscribed 'F[rat]ri gergio de athequa ordinis p[rae]dicator[um] [con]ventuj kalatayubi na[tio]nis [?] ispanie p[ro]uj[ncie] aragonje' on leaf ²B5 verso, Spain, late 15th century, identifiable with George de Athequa (d. 1545), later confessor and spiritual adviser of Queen Catherine of Aragon and Bishop of Llandaff (1517-1537), when still in the dominican convent of Calatayud near Zaragoza, Aragon, before following Queen Catherine to England in 1501. Part of Richard Holdsworth Bequest adjudged to Cambridge University in 1664. Armorial bookplate 'Academiæ Cantabrigiensis Liber' on upper pastedown. Old shelfmark 'L-3-35' in ink on upper pastedown and leaf a2 recto.
Binding noteMottled brown calf over pasteboards, with blind-fillet decoration, bookblock edges painted red, and title gilt on brown leather spine label, England, 17th century; old manuscript pressmark '35' on paper label pasted onto lower board fore-edge.
Decoration NoteBinding: Mottled brown calf over pasteboards, with blind-fillet decoration, bookblock edges painted red, and title gilt on brown leather spine label, England, 17th century; old manuscript pressmark '35' on paper label pasted onto lower board fore-edge.
Manuscript notesA few marginal manuscript notes in cursive hands in Latin on leaves c3 verso, e2 verso, i3 verso, i4 recto and i6 verso, and manicula on leaf i3 verso, England, 16th century.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

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Last Edit2017-04-30 12:00:00

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  00560627

Cambridge, University Library (GB) : Inc.3.B.3.78[1622]

ISTC No.ij00212000
AuthorJacobus Philippus de Bergamo
TitleSupplementum chronicarum
ImprintVenice : Bernardinus Rizus, Novariensis, 15 Feb. 1492/93
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectHistory
KeywordsLiterature-social
Periodcontemporary

Description of Copy

Copy Id00560627
Holding InstitutionCambridge, University Library (GB)
CollectionInc.2-7
ShelfmarkInc.3.B.3.78[1622]
NoteTitle from title page on leaf a1 recto.
Caption at incipit on leaf a2 recto reads as follows: Opus preclarum Supplementum chro/nicarum vulgo appellatu[m] : in omnimoda historia nouissime congesta fratris Jacobiphilippi Bergomensis religionis heremitarum diui Augustini decoris : q[uam] faustissime inchoat.
Imprints from colophon on leaf F8 verso, which reads in full: Impressum autem Venetijs per magistrum Bernardinu[m] riçium de Nouaria : anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni .M.cccc.lxxxxij. die decimoquinto Februarij : regnante inclyto duce Augustino barbadico.
Woodcut illustrations and initials throughout. Most of the illustrations and initials from Bernardinus Benalius's 1486 edition (ISTC ij00210000), including two half-page representations of the Expulsion from Paradise and Cain slaying Abel on leaves a3 verso and a4 verso respectively, and over 60 small woodcut city views, including repeats. The half-page cut of the Tower of Babel on leaf a6 verso and the city-views of Genoa, Rome, Verona, and Venice on leaves c3 verso, f8 recto, i6 verso, and t2 recto, are from his 1490 edition (ISTC ij00211000). Rizus also added woodcut borders on leaves a1 verso and a2 recto from cuts that had appeared earlier that same year in the Italian Legenda Aurea printed by Bonellis (ISTC ij00179000), and the frontispiece of Creation on leaf a1 verso and a small woodcut of Noah's ark on leaf a5 verso from the Bible in Italian printed by Malermi in 1490 (ISTC ib00644000)
Woodcut printer's device B on leaf F8v. For Rizus's device B, see BM 15th cent., V, 400.
Printed running titles and foliation with leaf 185 mistakenly foliated 85.
Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A-F⁸ ²A-²B⁶. Leaf a1 unsigned.
Title page, a1r; Creation woodcut, a1v; Jacobus Philippus Foresti de Bergamo. Supplementum chronicarum, [Liber primus], continuing until the year 1490, a1r-F8v; Jacobus Philippus Foresti de Bergamo. [Editorial note], dated 15th October 1486, and giving the age of the author as 52, F8v; colophon, F8vr; printer's register and device, F8v; Orlandinus Glerolus. [Verse], caption "Orlandini gleroli Brixiani disticum", incipit "Mendosis fueram numeris que sordida nuper / Prodeo cum tota culta tabella fide", 18 elegiac distichs, ²A1r; Table of contents, ²A1r-²B5v; [Jacobus Philippus Foresti de Bergamo]. Prologus [dedicated to] the magistrates of Bergamo, ²B5v-²B6r.
BM 15th cent., V, 404
BN cat. des incun., J-144
Bod-inc, J-091
BSB-Ink, I-125 (with digital facsimile)
Essling, V. Masséna, prince d'. Les livres à figures vénitiens, 345
Goff, J212
GW, M10980 (with digital facsimiles)
Hain-Copinger, 2809*
ISTC, ij00212000
Oates, 1939
Sander, 919
[2], 256, [12] leaves :
Original item identifier in source database: 5349246

Provenance

Provenance nameAthequa, George d', Bishop of Llandaff, d. 1545 [Person; Former Owner]

Provenance

Provenance nameHoldsworth, Richard, 1590-1649 [Person; Former Owner]

Provenance

PlaceCambridge (Geonames ID: 2653941)
Areae-uk-en
Provenance nameCambridge University Library [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)
NoteInscribed 'F[rat]ri gergio de athequa ordinis p[rae]dicator[um] [con]ventuj kalatayubi na[tio]nis [?] ispanie p[ro]uj[ncie] aragonje' on leaf ²B5 verso, Spain, late 15th century, identifiable with George de Athequa (d. 1545), later confessor and spiritual adviser of Queen Catherine of Aragon and Bishop of Llandaff (1517-1537), when still in the dominican convent of Calatayud near Zaragoza, Aragon, before following Queen Catherine to England in 1501. Part of Richard Holdsworth Bequest adjudged to Cambridge University in 1664. Armorial bookplate 'Academiæ Cantabrigiensis Liber' on upper pastedown. Old shelfmark 'L-3-35' in ink on upper pastedown and leaf a2 recto.
Binding noteMottled brown calf over pasteboards, with blind-fillet decoration, bookblock edges painted red, and title gilt on brown leather spine label, England, 17th century; old manuscript pressmark '35' on paper label pasted onto lower board fore-edge.
Decoration NoteBinding: Mottled brown calf over pasteboards, with blind-fillet decoration, bookblock edges painted red, and title gilt on brown leather spine label, England, 17th century; old manuscript pressmark '35' on paper label pasted onto lower board fore-edge.
Manuscript notesA few marginal manuscript notes in cursive hands in Latin on leaves c3 verso, e2 verso, i3 verso, i4 recto and i6 verso, and manicula on leaf i3 verso, England, 16th century.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain

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Last Edit2017-04-30 12:00:00