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GESTA ROMANORUM: Gesta romanorum cum applicationibus moralisatis ac misticis. [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger], 20 January 1497.
Super-chancery 4° (206 x 150mm). Collation: π8 a-p8 q4 (π1r title, π1v-π8v table, a1r text, q4v blank). 132 leaves. 43 lines and headline, double column. Type: 14:130G, 19:71G, 21:74G. 3-5-line initial spaces, most with guide-letter. (Some soiling, light dampstaining, title partially detached.) CONTEMPORARY CAMBRIDGE BINDING of blindstamped calf over wooden boards, remains of single fore-edge clasp fastening on rear board (spine chipped, hinges splitting) bound by the Antwerp binder, Oldham stamps 98, 99, 106, 107. Provenance: John Barnby, fl.1461-98, Cambridge MA by 1461, senior Proctor of the University 1461-7 (contemporary inscription: Liber M. iohannis Barnabe, cf. Emden BRUC); royal (Tudor) arms blindstamped on lvs.2 and 3; J.F. Merton, Saville Library sale (Sotheby's, 19 Dec. 1860); William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam (bookplate).
Drawn from classical as well as Arabic sources, such as the fables of Bidpai, the Gesta Romanorum was a popular medieval collection of moralizing tales known as exempla. The present copy was apparently imported to England immediately after publication, where it was bound by the Antwerp Binder, active at Cambridge from 1485 to 1495, and purchased by John Barnby, a Cambridge MA who died the next year, in 1498. H *7749; GW 10900; Goff G-295; Polain(B) 1653.
Super-chancery 4° (206 x 150mm). Collation: π8 a-p8 q4 (π1r title, π1v-π8v table, a1r text, q4v blank). 132 leaves. 43 lines and headline, double column. Type: 14:130G, 19:71G, 21:74G. 3-5-line initial spaces, most with guide-letter. (Some soiling, light dampstaining, title partially detached.) CONTEMPORARY CAMBRIDGE BINDING of blindstamped calf over wooden boards, remains of single fore-edge clasp fastening on rear board (spine chipped, hinges splitting) bound by the Antwerp binder, Oldham stamps 98, 99, 106, 107. Provenance: John Barnby, fl.1461-98, Cambridge MA by 1461, senior Proctor of the University 1461-7 (contemporary inscription: Liber M. iohannis Barnabe, cf. Emden BRUC); royal (Tudor) arms blindstamped on lvs.2 and 3; J.F. Merton, Saville Library sale (Sotheby's, 19 Dec. 1860); William Charles de Meuron, Earl Fitzwilliam (bookplate).
Drawn from classical as well as Arabic sources, such as the fables of Bidpai, the Gesta Romanorum was a popular medieval collection of moralizing tales known as exempla. The present copy was apparently imported to England immediately after publication, where it was bound by the Antwerp Binder, active at Cambridge from 1485 to 1495, and purchased by John Barnby, a Cambridge MA who died the next year, in 1498. H *7749; GW 10900; Goff G-295; Polain(B) 1653.