Material Evidence
in Incunabula

mei/02019783 54447 [02019783]

San Marino CA, Huntington Library (US) : 54447

ISTC No.ib00790000
AuthorBoethius
TitleDe consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Add: Pseudo- Boethius: De disciplina scholarium (Comm: pseudo- Thomas Aquinas)
ImprintLyons : Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyons), 1490
Format4°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectPhilosophy
KeywordsEducation; Theology-moral; Theology-moral; Commentary; Collection
Periodpatristic

Description of Copy

Copy Id02019783
Holding InstitutionSan Marino CA, Huntington Library (US)
Shelfmark54447
Also bound with this copyAuctores octo cum glossa. Con: Cato: Disticha. Theodulus: Ecloga. Facetus. Pseudo-Bernardus: De contemptu mundi. Matthaeus Vindocinensis: Tobias. Alanus de Insulis: Doctrinale altum parabolarum. Aesopus: Fabulae. Pseudo-Bernardus: Floretus. - [Lyons : Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyons), about 1490?] [ia01182000] (MEI ID: 02019784)
NoteCreated by Angeline Rais.
Size of leaves250 × 164 mm
Support material (book)Paper
SourceH. R. Mead, Incunabula in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA, The Huntington Library, 1937), no. 4766.

Provenance 1490 - 1500

Time period1490 - 1500
Provenance TypeInscription
Decoration
Decoration NoteOn a2r, an eight-line initial ‘P’ and on aa1r, a nine-line initial ‘A’ are supplied in blue and red in the same style as in the item bound with this copy (id. 02019784). Throughout, the other initials are supplied alternatively in red and blue; paragraph marks and capital strokes are supplied in red.
RubricationYes
Pen initialsYes
Manuscript notesOn a1r: title of the item bound with this copy ‘floretus sancti Bernhardi’ in black ink.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1501 -

Time period1501 -
Provenance name Jacobus Regis , 1500-1600 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Clergy, Religious)
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteOn a1r: inscription ‘Sum Jacobi Regis Canonicis’ and twice ‘Rii’ [?] in black ink.
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1823

PlaceFribourg (Geonames ID: 2660718)
Areae-sz
Time period - 1823
Provenance nameJesuits, Fribourg, 1582-1773, 1818-1847 [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Male, Clergy, Religious)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteSee below.
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered uncertain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1823 - 1872

PlaceBroadway (Geonames ID: 2654628)
Note on provenance placeIn Middle Hill estate near Broadway until 1863 when he moved to Thirlestaine House in Cheltenham.
Areae-uk-en
Time period1823 - 1872
Provenance namePhillipps, Sir Thomas, 1792-1872 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Scholar, Aristocracy)
Jean A. Lamy , 1822-1824 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
George Bretherton, 1847-1850 [Person; Binder] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeInscription
Binding
Documentary Evidence
NoteThis copy might be the one that Phillipps bought from the Jesuits of Fribourg in January 1823 through the bookseller Jean A. Lamy (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Phillipps-Robinson, c. 413, fols 11r and 16r for Lamy's bills). He recorded it as ‘Boetius de Philosophia 1490’ in his private papers (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Phillipps-Robinson, f. 72, fol. 8v: in the list headed ‘Empti de Collegio Jesuitarum apud Friburgi in Helvetia’). He also listed it in his ‘Catalogue of Printed Books at Middle Hill’ (Middle Hill, 1828) as ‘[no.] 490 [Boetius] [de Consolatione] [Philosophiae]. folio. Lugduni. 1490.’, p. 7. (According to ISTC and GW, Phillipps's description is incorrect because no text of Boethius was issued in folio at Lyons in 1490). However, as the copy has no material evidence of the Jesuits’ ownership, it is not possible to ascertain whether Phillipps actually acquired it from them.
On the upper pastedown: inscription ‘120’ in black ink. On the spine: label with the number ‘120’ printed in bold in black ink.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Binding notePhillipps had the book rebound by his binder George Bretherton. Half calf binding by George Bretherton. Modern paper pastedown and one endleaf and one contemporary paper endleaf. On the spine: title tooled in gold. On the upper pastedown: label with ‘BRETHERTON me ligavit 1850.’ in black ink.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialMixed
FurnitureYes
Binding statusOriginal binding (not significantly altered)
Binding Dimensions250 × 175 × 42 mm
TitlingTooled
ToolingGold
EdgesUncoloured
Writing on edgesNone
GaufferedNo
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Documentary source

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 [Corporate body; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteIn 1923, Rosenbach bought from Fenwick more than 700 incunabula which he directly sold to Huntington. See A.N.L. Munby, Phillipps studies 5 (Cambridge, CUP, 1960), pp. 76-77; D.C. Dickinson, Henry E. Huntington’s library of libraries (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, 1995), pp. 190-191.
On the upper pastedown: inscriptions ‘Ph 182’ and ‘183’ in pencil referring to both copies’ numbers 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
Hist. Library Catalogue / Accession Journal

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 TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteHuntington founded the library to house his collection.
On the front pastedown: bibliographical information in pencil.
Method of acquisitionBequest
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 Edit2019-11-22 14:56:14

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  02019783

San Marino CA, Huntington Library (US) : 54447

ISTC No.ib00790000
AuthorBoethius
TitleDe consolatione philosophiae (with commentary ascribed in the text to Thomas Aquinas). Add: Pseudo- Boethius: De disciplina scholarium (Comm: pseudo- Thomas Aquinas)
ImprintLyons : Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyons), 1490
Format4°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectPhilosophy
KeywordsEducation; Theology-moral; Theology-moral; Commentary; Collection
Periodpatristic

Description of Copy

Copy Id02019783
Holding InstitutionSan Marino CA, Huntington Library (US)
Shelfmark54447
Also bound with this copyAuctores octo cum glossa. Con: Cato: Disticha. Theodulus: Ecloga. Facetus. Pseudo-Bernardus: De contemptu mundi. Matthaeus Vindocinensis: Tobias. Alanus de Insulis: Doctrinale altum parabolarum. Aesopus: Fabulae. Pseudo-Bernardus: Floretus. - [Lyons : Jean Du Pré (printer of Lyons), about 1490?] [ia01182000] (MEI ID: 02019784)
NoteCreated by Angeline Rais.
Size of leaves250 × 164 mm
Support material (book)Paper
SourceH. R. Mead, Incunabula in the Huntington Library (San Marino, CA, The Huntington Library, 1937), no. 4766.

Provenance 1490 - 1500

Time period1490 - 1500
Provenance TypeInscription
Decoration
Decoration NoteOn a2r, an eight-line initial ‘P’ and on aa1r, a nine-line initial ‘A’ are supplied in blue and red in the same style as in the item bound with this copy (id. 02019784). Throughout, the other initials are supplied alternatively in red and blue; paragraph marks and capital strokes are supplied in red.
RubricationYes
Pen initialsYes
Manuscript notesOn a1r: title of the item bound with this copy ‘floretus sancti Bernhardi’ in black ink.
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1501 -

Time period1501 -
Provenance name Jacobus Regis , 1500-1600 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Clergy, Religious)
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteOn a1r: inscription ‘Sum Jacobi Regis Canonicis’ and twice ‘Rii’ [?] in black ink.
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1823

PlaceFribourg (Geonames ID: 2660718)
Areae-sz
Time period - 1823
Provenance nameJesuits, Fribourg, 1582-1773, 1818-1847 [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Male, Clergy, Religious)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteSee below.
Method of acquisitionunknown
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered uncertain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1823 - 1872

PlaceBroadway (Geonames ID: 2654628)
Note on provenance placeIn Middle Hill estate near Broadway until 1863 when he moved to Thirlestaine House in Cheltenham.
Areae-uk-en
Time period1823 - 1872
Provenance namePhillipps, Sir Thomas, 1792-1872 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Scholar, Aristocracy)
Jean A. Lamy , 1822-1824 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
George Bretherton, 1847-1850 [Person; Binder] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeInscription
Binding
Documentary Evidence
NoteThis copy might be the one that Phillipps bought from the Jesuits of Fribourg in January 1823 through the bookseller Jean A. Lamy (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Phillipps-Robinson, c. 413, fols 11r and 16r for Lamy's bills). He recorded it as ‘Boetius de Philosophia 1490’ in his private papers (see Oxford, Bodleian Library, MSS Phillipps-Robinson, f. 72, fol. 8v: in the list headed ‘Empti de Collegio Jesuitarum apud Friburgi in Helvetia’). He also listed it in his ‘Catalogue of Printed Books at Middle Hill’ (Middle Hill, 1828) as ‘[no.] 490 [Boetius] [de Consolatione] [Philosophiae]. folio. Lugduni. 1490.’, p. 7. (According to ISTC and GW, Phillipps's description is incorrect because no text of Boethius was issued in folio at Lyons in 1490). However, as the copy has no material evidence of the Jesuits’ ownership, it is not possible to ascertain whether Phillipps actually acquired it from them.
On the upper pastedown: inscription ‘120’ in black ink. On the spine: label with the number ‘120’ printed in bold in black ink.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Binding notePhillipps had the book rebound by his binder George Bretherton. Half calf binding by George Bretherton. Modern paper pastedown and one endleaf and one contemporary paper endleaf. On the spine: title tooled in gold. On the upper pastedown: label with ‘BRETHERTON me ligavit 1850.’ in black ink.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialMixed
FurnitureYes
Binding statusOriginal binding (not significantly altered)
Binding Dimensions250 × 175 × 42 mm
TitlingTooled
ToolingGold
EdgesUncoloured
Writing on edgesNone
GaufferedNo
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography
Documentary source

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 [Corporate body; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteIn 1923, Rosenbach bought from Fenwick more than 700 incunabula which he directly sold to Huntington. See A.N.L. Munby, Phillipps studies 5 (Cambridge, CUP, 1960), pp. 76-77; D.C. Dickinson, Henry E. Huntington’s library of libraries (San Marino, CA, Huntington Library, 1995), pp. 190-191.
On the upper pastedown: inscriptions ‘Ph 182’ and ‘183’ in pencil referring to both copies’ numbers 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
Hist. Library Catalogue / Accession Journal

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 TypeInscription
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteHuntington founded the library to house his collection.
On the front pastedown: bibliographical information in pencil.
Method of acquisitionBequest
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 Edit2019-11-22 14:56:14