Opuscula Diui Bernardi Abbatis Clareuallensis.
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. author.; Britannico, Giacomo, active 1480-1506, printer.; Britannico, Angelo, -1517, printer.; Jacobsen, E. P., former owner.; Philotheus, monachus Brixianus.; Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.; Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
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Title
Opuscula Diui Bernardi Abbatis Clareuallensis.
Uniform title
Works. Selections. 1495
Created/published
[Brescia] : Impressaq[ue] p[er] Angelum [et] Iacobu[m] de Brita[n]nicis fratres ..., die xviij. Martij 1495.
Description
[696] p. ; 15 cm (8vo)
Associated name
Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint, 1090 or 1091-1153. author.
Britannico, Giacomo, active 1480-1506, printer.
Britannico, Angelo, -1517, printer.
Jacobsen, E. P., former owner.
Philotheus, monachus Brixianus.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Britannico, Giacomo, active 1480-1506, printer.
Britannico, Angelo, -1517, printer.
Jacobsen, E. P., former owner.
Philotheus, monachus Brixianus.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Edited by Philotheus, monachus Brixianus.
Imprint from colophon (leaf P10r).
Signatures: A⁸, B¹⁰, a-z⁸, [et]⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, 2nd[A]-O⁸, P¹⁰ ([2nd]B2, [2nd]B3, [2nd]B4, signed A2, A3, A4; F3 signed E3, L2 signed L4; [1st]A2, [1st]B3, i2, and [et]2 unsigned).
Printed in 2 columns.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Includes "Philothei monachi: De uita & moribus Diui Bernardi ...": leaves A2r-B9r.
Imprint from colophon (leaf P10r).
Signatures: A⁸, B¹⁰, a-z⁸, [et]⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, 2nd[A]-O⁸, P¹⁰ ([2nd]B2, [2nd]B3, [2nd]B4, signed A2, A3, A4; F3 signed E3, L2 signed L4; [1st]A2, [1st]B3, i2, and [et]2 unsigned).
Printed in 2 columns.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Includes "Philothei monachi: De uita & moribus Diui Bernardi ...": leaves A2r-B9r.
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, B-364
BMC 15th cent., VII, p. 977 (IA.31147)
GW 3907
Veneziani, P. Tipografia a Brescia nel XV secolo, 115
BMC 15th cent., VII, p. 977 (IA.31147)
GW 3907
Veneziani, P. Tipografia a Brescia nel XV secolo, 115
Genre/form
Sheepskin bindings (Binding)
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Brescia.
Item Details
Call number
INC B318
Folger-specific note
Lacks last leaf with colophon (description from BM 15th cent.) Initials provided in alternate red and blue. A few early manuscript notes and brackets in brown ink and a distich on title page verso with title "vincent: Distichũ"; leaves a1 to P9 numbered by hand in upper corner of each recto, reading 1-327 (leaves "20" and "22" are not numbered). Contemporary Italian sheepskin binding, blind tooled, with 5 quadrangular ropework knot stamps in central panel, S-tool border and intricate ropework border on both covers; crisscross stamp on spine; also a later spine label in paper with inscription of author, title, imprint, and shelfmarks "4966", and "714" (in a different ink); inscription on lower edge "opusc:la D. Bernardi" reading from spine to fore-edge; original vellum pastedowns are now free; some worming; rebacked; in a tailored box. Bookplate of E. P. Jacobsen.