Material Evidence
in Incunabula

mei/02019726 104029 [02019726]

San Marino CA, Huntington Library (US) : 104029

ISTC No.is00653000
TitleSpeculum exemplorum
ImprintStrassburg : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 4 Mar. 1487
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectTheology-Pastoral
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id02019726
Holding InstitutionSan Marino CA, Huntington Library (US)
Shelfmark104029
NoteCreated by Angeline Rais.
Size of leaves292 × 205 mm
Support material (book)Paper
SourceH. R. Mead, Incunabula in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA, The Huntington Library, 1937), no. 371.

Provenance 1487 - 1501

PlaceBasel (Geonames ID: 2661604)
Areae-sz
Time period1487 - 1501
Provenance name Johannes II [Person; Binder] (Male, Booktrade, Unknown)
Provenance TypeBinding
Binding noteHalf white tanned skin over wooden boards tooled in blind by the binder Johannes II, active between 1478-1501 (EBDB w000124). Set of ‘thin-thick-thin’ lines forming a frame filled with two lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lys and lozenge-shaped flower stamps, stamp ‘Johannes’ below the frame on the front cover. Remnant of two clasps hanging on the lower cover. Plain edges. Contemporary paper pastedowns on which a fragment (parchment?) containing manuscript text has been pasted and two endleaves at the front cover only. Stamps nos. s010125, s010130 and s010131 (one lozenge-shaped flower stamps not recorded in EBDB). The identification of the binding has been provided by Scott Husby.
Binding date15th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialWood
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureYes
Binding statusOriginal binding (not significantly altered)
Binding Dimensions309 × 220 × 84 mm
Link to binding databaseshttp://www.hist-einband.de/?ws=w000124
TitlingManuscript
ToolingBlind
EdgesUncoloured
Writing on edgesNone
GaufferedNo
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1501 - 1600

Time period1501 - 1600
Provenance TypeInscription
Decoration
Manuscript Notes
Shelfmark
NoteOn the front cover: title is written in red ink and another inscription of which ‘Mari[?]’ in black ink is legible. On the spine: paper label bearing the title in black ink. On the head-edge: inscription (symbol?) in red ink.
Method of acquisitionunknown
Decoration NoteThroughout the text: initials are supplied in red, paragraph marks and capital strokes are supplied in red.
RubricationYes
Pen initialsYes
Manuscript notesThroughout the text: a few comments in Latin in red ink (one in black ink).
Ms. notes (frequency)A few
Location in BookThroughout
CommentsYes
Historic ShelfmarkOn the spine: paper label bearing a shelfmark ‘XVI 13’ (below the title) in red ink. (Shelfmark pattern No.: 53 )
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1601 - 1700

Time period1601 - 1700
Provenance TypeSeller's mark/note
Price12 On the verso of the second front endleaf: inscription ‘12 lb’ in black ink.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered uncertain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1824

PlaceDarmstadt (Geonames ID: 2938913)
Areae-gx
Time period - 1824
Provenance name Ess, Leander van , 1772 - 1847 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, University lecturer, Religious)
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteOn the spine: paper label with the number ‘[…]6.’ in black ink and on which has been pasted another paper label with the number ‘384’ manuscript and printed in brown and black ink.
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1872

PlaceCheltenham (Geonames ID: 2653261)
Note on provenance placeIn Thirlestaine House.
Areae-uk-en
Time period - 1872
Provenance namePhillipps, Sir Thomas, 1792-1872 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Scholar, Aristocracy)
Provenance TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
NotePhillipps bought more than 900 incunabula from Van Ess in 1824 at Darmstadt. See A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies 3 (Cambridge, CUP, 1954), pp. 28-33.
The book is recorded in the catalogue of Van Ess’s incunabula ‘Catalogus Incunabulorum Professoris et Doctoris Theol. L. Van Ess, Darmstadlt[sic], Nunc in Bibliothecâ Phillippicâ deposit’ (Middle Hill, c. 1824), that Phillipps printed shortly after the sale, see p. 32, no. 384.
On the spine: label with the number ‘103’ printed in bold in black ink. On the front pastedown: inscription ‘103’ in black ink.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Hist. Library Catalogue / Accession Journal

Provenance 1872 - 1923

PlaceCheltenham (Geonames ID: 2653261)
Note on provenance placeIn Thirlestaine House.
Areae-uk-en
Time period1872 - 1923
Provenance nameThomas FitzRoy Fenwick, 1856-1938 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteFenwick, Phillipps's grandson, inherited the Phillipps Library and started to sell it from 1885 onwards. See A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies 5 (Cambridge, CUP, 1960), pp. 14-21.
Method of acquisitionBequest
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1923 - 1923

PlacePhiladelphia (Geonames ID: 4560349)
Arean-us-pa
Time period1923 - 1923
Provenance nameRosenbach Company, 1903-1953 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteIn 1923, Rosenbach bought more than 700 of Phillipps’s incunabula from Fenwick and sold them directly to Huntington.
On the front pastedown: inscription ‘680’ in pencil referring to the book’s number in the list of Phillipps’s incunabula which Rosenbach presented to Huntington (List of Incunabula collected by Sir Thomas Phillipps, October 1923, Curator of Rare Books Office, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA).
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1923 - 1927

PlaceSan Marino (Geonames ID: 5392400)
Arean-us-ca
Time period1923 - 1927
Provenance nameHenry Edwards Huntington, 1850-1927 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Business, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteSee above.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1927 -

PlaceSan Marino (Geonames ID: 5392400)
Arean-us-ca
Time period1927 -
Provenance nameThe Huntington, 1927- [Corporate body; Present Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteHenry Huntington founded the library to house his collection.
Method of acquisitionBequest
Manuscript notesOn the front pastedown: inscription: bibliographical information and references to incunabula catalogues in pencil.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Library catalogue

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2019-07-02 06:57:53

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  02019726

San Marino CA, Huntington Library (US) : 104029

ISTC No.is00653000
TitleSpeculum exemplorum
ImprintStrassburg : [Printer of the 1483 Jordanus de Quedlinburg (Georg Husner)], 4 Mar. 1487
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectTheology-Pastoral
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id02019726
Holding InstitutionSan Marino CA, Huntington Library (US)
Shelfmark104029
NoteCreated by Angeline Rais.
Size of leaves292 × 205 mm
Support material (book)Paper
SourceH. R. Mead, Incunabula in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA, The Huntington Library, 1937), no. 371.

Provenance 1487 - 1501

PlaceBasel (Geonames ID: 2661604)
Areae-sz
Time period1487 - 1501
Provenance name Johannes II [Person; Binder] (Male, Booktrade, Unknown)
Provenance TypeBinding
Binding noteHalf white tanned skin over wooden boards tooled in blind by the binder Johannes II, active between 1478-1501 (EBDB w000124). Set of ‘thin-thick-thin’ lines forming a frame filled with two lozenge-shaped fleur-de-lys and lozenge-shaped flower stamps, stamp ‘Johannes’ below the frame on the front cover. Remnant of two clasps hanging on the lower cover. Plain edges. Contemporary paper pastedowns on which a fragment (parchment?) containing manuscript text has been pasted and two endleaves at the front cover only. Stamps nos. s010125, s010130 and s010131 (one lozenge-shaped flower stamps not recorded in EBDB). The identification of the binding has been provided by Scott Husby.
Binding date15th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialWood
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureYes
Binding statusOriginal binding (not significantly altered)
Binding Dimensions309 × 220 × 84 mm
Link to binding databaseshttp://www.hist-einband.de/?ws=w000124
TitlingManuscript
ToolingBlind
EdgesUncoloured
Writing on edgesNone
GaufferedNo
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1501 - 1600

Time period1501 - 1600
Provenance TypeInscription
Decoration
Manuscript Notes
Shelfmark
NoteOn the front cover: title is written in red ink and another inscription of which ‘Mari[?]’ in black ink is legible. On the spine: paper label bearing the title in black ink. On the head-edge: inscription (symbol?) in red ink.
Method of acquisitionunknown
Decoration NoteThroughout the text: initials are supplied in red, paragraph marks and capital strokes are supplied in red.
RubricationYes
Pen initialsYes
Manuscript notesThroughout the text: a few comments in Latin in red ink (one in black ink).
Ms. notes (frequency)A few
Location in BookThroughout
CommentsYes
Historic ShelfmarkOn the spine: paper label bearing a shelfmark ‘XVI 13’ (below the title) in red ink. (Shelfmark pattern No.: 53 )
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1601 - 1700

Time period1601 - 1700
Provenance TypeSeller's mark/note
Price12 On the verso of the second front endleaf: inscription ‘12 lb’ in black ink.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered uncertain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1824

PlaceDarmstadt (Geonames ID: 2938913)
Areae-gx
Time period - 1824
Provenance name Ess, Leander van , 1772 - 1847 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, University lecturer, Religious)
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteOn the spine: paper label with the number ‘[…]6.’ in black ink and on which has been pasted another paper label with the number ‘384’ manuscript and printed in brown and black ink.
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1872

PlaceCheltenham (Geonames ID: 2653261)
Note on provenance placeIn Thirlestaine House.
Areae-uk-en
Time period - 1872
Provenance namePhillipps, Sir Thomas, 1792-1872 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Scholar, Aristocracy)
Provenance TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
NotePhillipps bought more than 900 incunabula from Van Ess in 1824 at Darmstadt. See A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies 3 (Cambridge, CUP, 1954), pp. 28-33.
The book is recorded in the catalogue of Van Ess’s incunabula ‘Catalogus Incunabulorum Professoris et Doctoris Theol. L. Van Ess, Darmstadlt[sic], Nunc in Bibliothecâ Phillippicâ deposit’ (Middle Hill, c. 1824), that Phillipps printed shortly after the sale, see p. 32, no. 384.
On the spine: label with the number ‘103’ printed in bold in black ink. On the front pastedown: inscription ‘103’ in black ink.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Hist. Library Catalogue / Accession Journal

Provenance 1872 - 1923

PlaceCheltenham (Geonames ID: 2653261)
Note on provenance placeIn Thirlestaine House.
Areae-uk-en
Time period1872 - 1923
Provenance nameThomas FitzRoy Fenwick, 1856-1938 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteFenwick, Phillipps's grandson, inherited the Phillipps Library and started to sell it from 1885 onwards. See A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies 5 (Cambridge, CUP, 1960), pp. 14-21.
Method of acquisitionBequest
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1923 - 1923

PlacePhiladelphia (Geonames ID: 4560349)
Arean-us-pa
Time period1923 - 1923
Provenance nameRosenbach Company, 1903-1953 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteIn 1923, Rosenbach bought more than 700 of Phillipps’s incunabula from Fenwick and sold them directly to Huntington.
On the front pastedown: inscription ‘680’ in pencil referring to the book’s number in the list of Phillipps’s incunabula which Rosenbach presented to Huntington (List of Incunabula collected by Sir Thomas Phillipps, October 1923, Curator of Rare Books Office, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA).
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1923 - 1927

PlaceSan Marino (Geonames ID: 5392400)
Arean-us-ca
Time period1923 - 1927
Provenance nameHenry Edwards Huntington, 1850-1927 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Business, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteSee above.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1927 -

PlaceSan Marino (Geonames ID: 5392400)
Arean-us-ca
Time period1927 -
Provenance nameThe Huntington, 1927- [Corporate body; Present Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteHenry Huntington founded the library to house his collection.
Method of acquisitionBequest
Manuscript notesOn the front pastedown: inscription: bibliographical information and references to incunabula catalogues in pencil.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Library catalogue

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2019-07-02 06:57:53