[I]n co[n]uersionis mee p[ri]mordio cu[m] pro me[n]tis recreac[i]o[n]e sancto[rum] auc[torita]tes legere[m] & legendo varias p[er]cipere[m] corrupc[i]ones.
Johann Mentelin (ca. 1410-1478)
Category
Books
Date
1472
Materials
Place of origin
Strasbourg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069900
Summary
Bibliographic description
[364] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6967. Wanting blank leaves [a1.8]. Principal initials supplied in red with reserved white decoration; smaller initials, capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied throughout in red; table of contents numbered in red with corresponding leaf numbers; foliation supplied in red on recto of each leaf. Infrequent early manuscript marginal annotations in black ink, including 'NB' nota marks. Provenance: manuscript inscription at head of leaf [a2] recto: "Iste Liber est inscriptus Chathalogo Librorum Monasterij S Pauli p[ri]mi Eremitae Neostadij" [i.e. from the monastery library of the Pauline Fathers (Order of Saint Paul the First Hermit), also known as the Pauline Hermits, in Wiener Neustadt, Austria]. Illegible early inscription at foot of leaf [a2] recto, reading in part "... Lxxviij doctores …". Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "Β-η'." [i.e. Beta-eta' = Greek number 2-8]. Binding: eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco (front cover scratched and stained); sewn on six supports; covers decorated with a panel design consisting of an outer border formed by a floral roll within fillet frame and foliate roll with separate tools on inner edge, and a centre panel formed by the same floral roll and with cornerpiece tools at outer corners; gilt floral roll on board edges and turn-ins; gold-tooled spine with fillets, floral roll at head, tail and on raised bands, and separate foliate tools in the compartments; spine lettered in gilt 'Pharetra'; gilt-edges leaves over marbling; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Johann Mentelin (ca. 1410-1478), printer