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LEONARDUS DE UTINO (d.1470). Sermones de sanctis. Speier: Peter Drach, 9 February 1478.
Chancery 2° (282 x 210mm). Collation: π8 2π6 110 2-418 426 (π1r table of subjects, 2π6 blank, 1/1 blank, 1/2r prologue, 1/3r text, 42/5 colophon, device (Weil 95), 42/5v table of sermon titles, 42/6v blank). 350 leaves, with the two preliminary quires bound at the end. 42 lines and headline, double column. Type: 1:130G (headings and colophon), 2:94G (text). Fine 14-line initial D in red and blue with purple, red and green decoration and extensions, 3- to 7-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. (Marginal tears in 2 leaves, first blank leaf torn with loss, very lightly browned.) Contemporary blindstamped calf over bevelled wooden boards, with fragments of paper title label on upper cover, remains of 2 fore-edge clasps (rebacked, section of leather torn from rear board); the stamps not in Kyriss. Provenance: early manuscript inscription and occasional gloss.
This edition is unique in having a sophisticated system of reference, showing Drach's concern for increasing the utility of his editions. Here quire numbers are printed at the top of each page, and within each quire columns are lettered alphbetically. In the table each subject is then given a precise reference, which enables the reader to locate passages quickly and easily. This system obviously could also serve its traditional purpose as a means of ordering the sheets for binding. H *16135; BMC II, 489 (IB. 8468); Goff L-160; Polain(B) 2482; IGI 5742; BSB L-115.
Chancery 2° (282 x 210mm). Collation: π8 2π6 110 2-418 426 (π1r table of subjects, 2π6 blank, 1/1 blank, 1/2r prologue, 1/3r text, 42/5 colophon, device (Weil 95), 42/5v table of sermon titles, 42/6v blank). 350 leaves, with the two preliminary quires bound at the end. 42 lines and headline, double column. Type: 1:130G (headings and colophon), 2:94G (text). Fine 14-line initial D in red and blue with purple, red and green decoration and extensions, 3- to 7-line initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes in red. (Marginal tears in 2 leaves, first blank leaf torn with loss, very lightly browned.) Contemporary blindstamped calf over bevelled wooden boards, with fragments of paper title label on upper cover, remains of 2 fore-edge clasps (rebacked, section of leather torn from rear board); the stamps not in Kyriss. Provenance: early manuscript inscription and occasional gloss.
This edition is unique in having a sophisticated system of reference, showing Drach's concern for increasing the utility of his editions. Here quire numbers are printed at the top of each page, and within each quire columns are lettered alphbetically. In the table each subject is then given a precise reference, which enables the reader to locate passages quickly and easily. This system obviously could also serve its traditional purpose as a means of ordering the sheets for binding. H *16135; BMC II, 489 (IB. 8468); Goff L-160; Polain(B) 2482; IGI 5742; BSB L-115.