Items
Linked e-resources
Details
Title
Mamotrectus.
Uniform title
Mammotrectus super Bibliam
Created/published
Imp[re]ssu[m] Venetijs : P[er] Symone[m] Papien[sem] alias Beuilaqua, anno D[omi]ni 1492. die 12 Iulij.
Description
[548] p. ; 16 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Marchesinus, Johannes. author.
Borsanus, Hieronymus, former owner.
Bevilaqua, Simon, active 1485-1518, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Borsanus, Hieronymus, former owner.
Bevilaqua, Simon, active 1485-1518, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Imprint from colophon (leaf E7r).
Signatures: A-B⁸, C¹⁰, a-z⁸, [et]⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, [2nd]A-E⁸ (A2 signed a, A4 signed 4, B4 signed b4).
Woodcut capitals, Lombards, and capital spaces with guide letters.
Printed in 2 columns.
Leaf a1 printed in red and black.
Includes index.
Signatures: A-B⁸, C¹⁰, a-z⁸, [et]⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, [2nd]A-E⁸ (A2 signed a, A4 signed 4, B4 signed b4).
Woodcut capitals, Lombards, and capital spaces with guide letters.
Printed in 2 columns.
Leaf a1 printed in red and black.
Includes index.
Exhibited
Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, 2018.Form and Function: The Genius of the Book.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, M-252
BM 15th cent., V, p. 517 (IA.23923)
Hain 10570*
BM 15th cent., V, p. 517 (IA.23923)
Hain 10570*
Genre/form
Manuscript waste.
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.
Item Details
Call number
INC M219
Folger-specific note
Folger copy: inscription on title page with price, defaced, illegible (also started on front cover); another inscription below reading "Hieronimi Borsani su[m]"; also number "15" handwritten on same page; title inscription on upper edge and name "bonus Laurentius [...?]llis" on lower edge, both reading from spine to fore-edge. In a vellum binding with fragments of an earlier manuscript as pastedowns (bearing Acts of the Apostles VI, 8-10, and VII, 54-57); remains of 2 ties on fore-edge; small paper spine label, defaced, illegible. Purchased in 1905.