Shelfmark
Fs.1.01
Author
Ludolf, ca. 1300 - 1377 or 8 von Sachsen
Uniform title
[Vita Christi]
Title
Uita Jesu christi redemptoris nostri ex medullis euangelicis: et approbatis ab ecclesia doctoribus sedule per Ludolphu[m] de Saxonia ordinis chartusiensis collecta. Sancte Anne virginis christipare genitricis vita in compendium labore ascensiano redacta. Diui Ioachim patris sacratissime virginis laudes in varijs carminum generibus. Tabule multiplices: videlicet Euangeliorum tam dominicaliu[m] qu[e] festorum: annotationu[m]: et cetere id genus: longe et pleniores et faciliores qu[e] olim. quippe q[ue] sine multa foliorum reuolutione: materiam expetiam in promptu exhibebunt.
Varying form of title
Vita Jesu Christi redemptoris nostri ex medullis evangelicis
Publication, distribution, etc.
Uenundatur Parrhisijs : vbi impressa est sub Sole aureo in vico diui Jacobi per Magistrum Bertholdum Rembolt qui eam quanta potuit diligentia curauit imprimendam., [1517]
Physical description
[18], CCLXIIII leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 37 cm. (Fol.)
Note
Edited by Jodocus Badius Ascensius (J. Badius).
Note
Date from colophon: "Anno ... M.D.xvij. Die vero. xxiij Julij."
Note
Title page and verso of leaf [2] printed in black and red ink.
Note
Text printed on two columns per page.
Note
Signatures: pi² AA-BB⁸ a-z⁸ A-K⁸.
Note
Woodcuts: title page, border and printer's device, initials, full page illustrations on t.p. verso and leaf BB8v.
Note
Printed marginalia.
Provenance
At head of title: ms. ownership inscription of the Charterhouse of Weddern near Dülmen in Westphalia.
Provenance
Presented by Sir John Noble, June 1931.
Provenance
20th-century printed accession label of [Eton] College Library.
Binding
16th-century blind-panelled calf over wooden boards; brass clasps and catches on leather straps; one leather and parchment thumb tab on leaf AA1; five double sewing supports; top spine compartment painted white with shelfmark "B.30" in black; second compartment painted red with title parchment "Lud. Catus. Vita Xii." in black endbands. On the front cover a rectangular centre ornament formed by impressions of a foliate tool and containing a column of three stamps shaped like an armorial shield flanked on either side by smaller lozenges containing eagles and lions; outer border and inner frames of broad fillets flanked by thinner fillets; the inner compartment divided by diagonals with the compartments containing impressions of fleur-de-lys and lions in lozenges, and circular stamps containing letters; the outer frame contains foliate tools with circular tools of the four evangelists in the corner compartments; at the foot of this, two heart-shaped stamps containing the letters "H" and "G". On the back cover, outer border and inner frames of broad fillets flanked by thinner fillets; the inner compartment divided by diagonals; the compartments containing impressions of the same stamp shaped like an armorial shield, round and rectangular stamps containing a rose, the lamb and flag, an angel, letters and other motifs; also a wishbone shaped tool.
Binding
Bound at Weddern; see Goldschmidt, p.165; Oates, 460.
Copy-specific note
Imperfect: wanting leaf [ii] of prelims.
Copy-specific note
ECL copy with the woodcuts and initials hand-coloured; rubricated throughout.
Copy-specific note
Former owner's shelfmark inside front cover: B56.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Lobby A1; Fr.2.horiz.
Subject
Added entry--name
Badius, Josse, 1462 - 1535 editor.
Added entry--name
Rembolt, Berthold, ? - d. 1518 printer.
Added entry--name
Noble, John Henry Brunel, 1865 - ? Sir, donor.
Added entry--name
Carthusians former owner.
Added entry--name
Kartause Weddern (Dülmen, Germany) former owner, bookbinder.
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B40100