Material Evidence
in Incunabula

mei/02150325 CW-464 [02150325]

Philadelphia PA, Free Library of Philadelphia (US) : CW-464

ISTC No.ih00239000
AuthorHieronymus
TitleVita et transitus (i.e., Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De miraculis Hieronymi)
Imprint[Blaubeuren : Conrad Mancz, about 1475]
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectHagiography
Keywordsanthology
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id02150325
Holding InstitutionPhiladelphia PA, Free Library of Philadelphia (US)
CollectionCopinger-Widener Collection
ShelfmarkCW-464
NoteCreated by Eric Pumroy
Physical DescriptionIn mid-19th century black leather binding with gold tooled lines and stamps and gold-stamped label. Leafs foliated by hand in brown ink, beginning with folio 15, suggesting that the text was once bound with one or more other texts.
Size of leaves260 × 181 mm
Copy FeaturesComplete
Copy Features - NoteIncludes last blank.
Support material (book)Paper

Provenance 1498 - 1599

Areae
Time period1498 - 1599
Provenance nameAnonymous annotator, 1400-1599 [Person; Annotator] (Male, Unknown, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDecoration
Manuscript Notes
Link to Provenance ImageMarginal notes On folio 27r
NoteMarginal notes in brown ink in at least two hands, probably from the latter part of the 16th century or the first half of the 17th century. 16th-17th century foliation begins with folio 15, suggesting that this text was once bound with other short texts.
Date of evidence1500-1600
Rubrication noteRubrication only in the first 10 pages, consisting of red capitals, paragraph strokes, capital strokes and underlining.
Manuscript notesLarge number of brief marginal notes, consisting of keywords, some short commentary, and highlighting, including maniculae.
Ms. notes (frequency)Extensive
Location in BookThroughout
Extraction of keywordsYes
CommentsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1803 - 1840

PlaceMunich (Geonames ID: 2867714)
Areae-gx
Time period1803 - 1840
Provenance nameMünchen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Library, Unknown)
Provenance TypeDeaccession mark
Link to Provenance ImagePencil notation "Dupl." In upper right corner of the first page of text (a1r)
NoteNotation "Dupl" similar to the notations used by the Bavarian State Library to deaccession duplicate volumes acquired through the closing of Bavarian monasteries in 1803.
Method of acquisitionRequisition
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1850 - 1900

Areae-uk
Time period1850 - 1900
Provenance nameAnonymous, England, 1850-1900 [Person; Former Owner]
Provenance TypeBinding
Link to Provenance Image19th century black leather binding. Binding spine showing gold stamped label and designs, including label for Hain number.
Date of evidence1850
Binding note19th black leather binding with blind-tooled decorations on covers and spine, and gold stamped label on spine, including Hain number. Gilded page edges.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialLeather
Binding statusRebound
Binding Dimensions272 × 191 × 19 mm
TitlingTooled
ToolingGold
EdgesColoured
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1880 - 1898

PlaceManchester (Geonames ID: 2643123)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1880 - 1898
Provenance nameCopinger, Walter Arthur, 1847 - 1910 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Lawyer, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeExlibris
Bibliographic Evidence
Link to Provenance ImageEarly exlibris of Walter Arthur Copinger. Ex-libris with coat of arms, but no frame or date. Link is to image of the same ex-libris in MEI record https://data.cerl.org/mei/02146186.
NoteBook listed in the catalogue of Copinger's collection: Handlist of a Collection of Incunabula, Illustrating the Progress and Development of the Art of Printing Prior to the Year 1500, By Specimens from Over Three Hundred Different Presses. [London]: Privately Printed and Not for Circulation. 1898.
Rectangular white printed label “From the Library of Walter Arthur Copinger” attached to upper left corner of front pastedown.
Date of evidence1880-1898
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Hist. Library Catalogue / Accession Journal

Provenance 1898 -

PlacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania (Geonames ID: 4560349)
Arean-us
Time period1898 -
Provenance nameFree Library of Philadelphia, 1891 - present [Corporate body; Present Owner] (Unknown, Library, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeExlibris
Bibliographic Evidence
NotePart of the Copinger Collection purchased for the Free Library of Philadelphia by P.A.B. Widener of Philadelphia, 1898.
Date of evidence1898
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Library catalogue

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2023-10-27 18:32:59

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  02150325

Philadelphia PA, Free Library of Philadelphia (US) : CW-464

ISTC No.ih00239000
AuthorHieronymus
TitleVita et transitus (i.e., Eusebius Cremonensis: Epistola de morte Hieronymi; Aurelius Augustinus, S: Epistola de magnificentiis Hieronymi; Cyrillus: De miraculis Hieronymi)
Imprint[Blaubeuren : Conrad Mancz, about 1475]
Formatf°
Languagelat
full ISTC record
SubjectHagiography
Keywordsanthology
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id02150325
Holding InstitutionPhiladelphia PA, Free Library of Philadelphia (US)
CollectionCopinger-Widener Collection
ShelfmarkCW-464
NoteCreated by Eric Pumroy
Physical DescriptionIn mid-19th century black leather binding with gold tooled lines and stamps and gold-stamped label. Leafs foliated by hand in brown ink, beginning with folio 15, suggesting that the text was once bound with one or more other texts.
Size of leaves260 × 181 mm
Copy FeaturesComplete
Copy Features - NoteIncludes last blank.
Support material (book)Paper

Provenance 1498 - 1599

Areae
Time period1498 - 1599
Provenance nameAnonymous annotator, 1400-1599 [Person; Annotator] (Male, Unknown, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDecoration
Manuscript Notes
Link to Provenance ImageMarginal notes On folio 27r
NoteMarginal notes in brown ink in at least two hands, probably from the latter part of the 16th century or the first half of the 17th century. 16th-17th century foliation begins with folio 15, suggesting that this text was once bound with other short texts.
Date of evidence1500-1600
Rubrication noteRubrication only in the first 10 pages, consisting of red capitals, paragraph strokes, capital strokes and underlining.
Manuscript notesLarge number of brief marginal notes, consisting of keywords, some short commentary, and highlighting, including maniculae.
Ms. notes (frequency)Extensive
Location in BookThroughout
Extraction of keywordsYes
CommentsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1803 - 1840

PlaceMunich (Geonames ID: 2867714)
Areae-gx
Time period1803 - 1840
Provenance nameMünchen, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Library, Unknown)
Provenance TypeDeaccession mark
Link to Provenance ImagePencil notation "Dupl." In upper right corner of the first page of text (a1r)
NoteNotation "Dupl" similar to the notations used by the Bavarian State Library to deaccession duplicate volumes acquired through the closing of Bavarian monasteries in 1803.
Method of acquisitionRequisition
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand

Provenance 1850 - 1900

Areae-uk
Time period1850 - 1900
Provenance nameAnonymous, England, 1850-1900 [Person; Former Owner]
Provenance TypeBinding
Link to Provenance Image19th century black leather binding. Binding spine showing gold stamped label and designs, including label for Hain number.
Date of evidence1850
Binding note19th black leather binding with blind-tooled decorations on covers and spine, and gold stamped label on spine, including Hain number. Gilded page edges.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialLeather
Binding statusRebound
Binding Dimensions272 × 191 × 19 mm
TitlingTooled
ToolingGold
EdgesColoured
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Bibliography

Provenance 1880 - 1898

PlaceManchester (Geonames ID: 2643123)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1880 - 1898
Provenance nameCopinger, Walter Arthur, 1847 - 1910 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Lawyer, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeExlibris
Bibliographic Evidence
Link to Provenance ImageEarly exlibris of Walter Arthur Copinger. Ex-libris with coat of arms, but no frame or date. Link is to image of the same ex-libris in MEI record https://data.cerl.org/mei/02146186.
NoteBook listed in the catalogue of Copinger's collection: Handlist of a Collection of Incunabula, Illustrating the Progress and Development of the Art of Printing Prior to the Year 1500, By Specimens from Over Three Hundred Different Presses. [London]: Privately Printed and Not for Circulation. 1898.
Rectangular white printed label “From the Library of Walter Arthur Copinger” attached to upper left corner of front pastedown.
Date of evidence1880-1898
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Hist. Library Catalogue / Accession Journal

Provenance 1898 -

PlacePhiladelphia, Pennsylvania (Geonames ID: 4560349)
Arean-us
Time period1898 -
Provenance nameFree Library of Philadelphia, 1891 - present [Corporate body; Present Owner] (Unknown, Library, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeExlibris
Bibliographic Evidence
NotePart of the Copinger Collection purchased for the Free Library of Philadelphia by P.A.B. Widener of Philadelphia, 1898.
Date of evidence1898
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceBook in hand
Library catalogue

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered complete
Last Edit2023-10-27 18:32:59