York, York Minster Library (GB)
: Inc.5-9
N° ISTCib00687000
AuteurBirgitta, S
TitreRevelationes. With foreword by Johannes de Turrecremata and Matthias de Suecia. Add: Vita abbreviata S. Birgittae. Hymnus ad Beatam Birgittam
Adresse bibliographique[Lübeck] : Bartholomaeus Ghotan [for Vadstena Monastery, before 25 Nov.] 1492
Formatf°
Languelat
SujetLittérature de dévotion
Mots clésprophetic works; collection; hagiography
Périodemedieval
Description de l’exemplaire
ID de l’exemplaire02150419
Institution de conservationYork, York Minster Library (GB)
CoteInc.5-9
NoteCreated by Edward James Potten.
Particularités d'exemplaire (complétude)Complète
Support du textePapier
Provenance
1492 -
1525
LieuLondon, England? (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Période1492 - 1525
Type de provenanceDécoration
Note sur le décorThe full-page woodcut of the Crucifixion is hand-coloured, the Cross coloured with brown ink, the Crown of Thorns green, the faces, hands and feet of Mary and John pink, Christ's loincloth yellow, Christ's body pink, then graphically daubed with red depicting his blood, which drips and flows from his body; other details are highlighted in blue and brown. The woodcuts are washed in yellow ink; in the opening quires the woodcut initials are also washed in yellow ink.
Illustration coloriée à la mainOui
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est considérée comme certaine
SourceLivre en main
Provenance
1478 -
1533
LieuCambridge, England (Geonames ID: 2653941)
Période1478 - 1533
Type de provenanceReliure
Date des marques de provenance1478-1533
Description de la reliureRebound, the original sixteenth-century brown calf covers lifted and on-laid; the covers blind tooled to a panel design; outer frame made up of repeated foliate staff tool (Oldham, Basil, English Blind-Stamped Bindings (1952), plate X, tool 21); the central panel decorated to a lozenge design, the spaces filled with impressions of a diamond-shaped floral tool (Oldham (1952), plate X, tool 24), round floral tools (Oldham (1952), plate X, tool 26), shield tools signed W.G. (Oldham (1952), plate X, tool 20) and lozenge-shaped double-headed eagle tools (Oldham (1952), plate X, tool 29); spine direct-lettered in gilt: Birgitta Revelationes et vita; sewn onto four raised supports; fore-edge direct-lettered in MS: 25 TVR.R. CREM; 21 fore-edge tabs, some lettered in MS; both covers have traces of five metal bosses and traces of two pairs of clasps at the fore-edge, with the catches on the lower cover; these tools attributed by Oldham to his W.G. and I.G, working from Cambridge; according to Oldham, bindings by W.G. and I.G. are found on books printed between 1478 and 1533 (see: Oldham (1952), p. 16).
Date de reliure16ème siècle
Type de reliurePlats
Type de platBois
Materiau de reliureCuir
Statut de la reliure/Etat de la reliureReliure d'origine (restaurée)
Décor de fersA froid
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est considérée comme certaine
SourceLivre en main
Provenance
1500 -
1524
LieuLondon, England (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Période1500 - 1524
Type de provenanceSource documentaire
NoteThe Syon Abbey register records that the copy of this book at the Abbey was donated by John Copynger (d. 1538), see: Gillespie, Corpus of British Mediaeval Library Catalogues, Volume 9, Syon Abbey, p. 257 (no. 848) and p. 573.
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est considérée comme certaine
SourceLivre en main
Provenance
1524 -
LieuLondon, England
Période1524 -
Type de provenanceReliure
Source documentaire
Date des marques de provenance1524
Description de la reliureBased on characteristics of the binding (the presence of fore-edge tabs, evidence of the presence of a horn plate, now lost, to the rear cover), probably from Syon Abbey (ex. inf. Vincent Gillespie); a copy of this book listed in the Syon Abbey catalogue of c.1524 at M.115 (see: Gillespie, Corpus of British Mediaeval Library Catalogues, Volume 9, Syon Abbey, with The Libraries of the Carthusians, edited by AI Doyle (2001)).
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est considérée comme certaine
SourceLivre en main
Source documentaire
Provenance
1700 -
1800
Période1700 - 1800 (Approximate date.)
Type de provenanceInscription
NoteEighteenth-century MS inscription on sig. H8 [second sequence]: John Johnson.
Date des marques de provenance1700-1800
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est considérée comme certaine
SourceLivre en main
Provenance
1800 -
LieuYork, England (Geonames ID: 2633352)
Période1800 - (Approximate date.)
PossesseurYork Minster [Collectivité; Possesseur actuel] (Bibliothèque, Ecclésiastique/Religieux)
Type de provenanceSource documentaire
Date des marques de provenanceDate of acquisition by York Minster unknown, but probably early 19th century?
Cote ancienneXII.J.9
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est considérée comme certaine
SourceLivre en main
Source documentaire
Informations supplémentaires
ComplétudeLa description des marques de provenance est considérée comme complète
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