Rare English printed fragment as endpaper.- Leo I (Pope) Epistolae decretales ac...
Rare English printed fragment as endpaper.- Leo I (Pope) Epistolae decretales ac familiares, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, lacking final blank, 'X' erased from printed date on title, c5 piece from lower blank corner, some staining (including ink, and water-staining to lower margins), occasional minor marginal worming, lightly browned, 2 probably English 15th century manuscript ff. with extracts from Hostiensis (Henry of Segusio, d. 1271), Summa Aurea super titulis Decretalium (a legal commentary on the Decretals) and a printed fragment used as endpapers, early 20th century pastedowns and free endpapers, contemporary ?English blind-stamped panelled calf, small fleur-de-lis at centre of panels, rebacked in early 20th century calf in compartments and with red morocco label, covers repaired at edges and all but detached, rubbed and scuffed, [VD16 K 191], 8vo, Cologne, Melchior von Neuß, 1548.
*** A single leaf fragment from Johannes Carion's A wonderfull prophecye contynuyng tyll the yere of our Lorde, London, Anthony Scoloker and Wyllyam Seres, [c.1550] (ESTC S3916) is used as a front free endpaper. The work is extremely rare with ESTC recording only a fragment at John Rylands ('Imperfect: fragment, all after p. [12] lacking; remainder cropped, stained, torn, and tightly bound' (ESTC)).
Provenance: 'W. Phillips' (contemporary ink inscription at head of printed fragment verso).
Title: Epistolae decretales ac familiares
Printer: Melchior von Neuß
Place: Cologne
Interest: Rare English printed fragment as endpaper
Authors Name: Pope Leo I
Date of Publication: 1548
Authors First Name: Pope
Authors Surname: Leo I
Condition Report
Rare English printed fragment as endpaper.- Leo I (Pope) Epistolae decretales ac familiares, title with woodcut printer's device, woodcut decorative initials, lacking final blank, 'X' erased from printed date on title, c5 piece from lower blank corner, some staining (including ink, and water-staining to lower margins), occasional minor marginal worming, lightly browned, 2 probably English 15th century manuscript ff. with extracts from Hostiensis (Henry of Segusio, d. 1271), Summa Aurea super titulis Decretalium (a legal commentary on the Decretals) and a printed fragment used as endpapers, early 20th century pastedowns and free endpapers, contemporary ?English blind-stamped panelled calf, small fleur-de-lis at centre of panels, rebacked in early 20th century calf in compartments and with red morocco label, covers repaired at edges and all but detached, rubbed and scuffed, [VD16 K 191], 8vo, Cologne, Melchior von Neuß, 1548.
*** A single leaf fragment from Johannes Carion's A wonderfull prophecye contynuyng tyll the yere of our Lorde, London, Anthony Scoloker and Wyllyam Seres, [c.1550] (ESTC S3916) is used as a front free endpaper. The work is extremely rare with ESTC recording only a fragment at John Rylands ('Imperfect: fragment, all after p. [12] lacking; remainder cropped, stained, torn, and tightly bound' (ESTC)).
Provenance: 'W. Phillips' (contemporary ink inscription at head of printed fragment verso).
Title: Epistolae decretales ac familiares
Printer: Melchior von Neuß
Place: Cologne
Interest: Rare English printed fragment as endpaper
Authors Name: Pope Leo I
Date of Publication: 1548
Authors First Name: Pope
Authors Surname: Leo I
Condition Report
