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| ID no. of MS | BETA manid 4183 |
| City and Library | London The British Library |
| Collection: Call number | C.20.e.6 |
| Imprint | Zaragoza: Jorge Coci, 1508-10-30 |
External description |
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| Writing surface | papel |
| Format | folio (Norton) |
| Leaf Analysis | ff.: 302: [1] + II-CCXCVIII + [4] (Norton) |
| Collation | a-z8 A-O8 P6 (Norton) |
| Page Layout | 2 cols. (Norton) 46 ll. (9r) (Norton) |
| Size | caja: 238 × 156 mm (9r) (Norton) |
| Font | gótica c. 275 G (título) (Norton) gótica c. 135 G (encabezamientos, titulillos) (Norton) gótica 104 G (texto) (Norton) |
| Binding | marroquí rojo doblado con marroquí verde oliva, hierros dorados estilo Grolier, cortes dorados (Sotheby) |
| History of volume | Adquirido London (price: 200 £) (West 2003:165) |
| Previous owners (oldest first) | Università di Roma “La Sapienza”. Biblioteca Alessandrina (Quaritch 1895:xvii) Edwin Tross, librero Paris (1851) 1872 (Quaritch 1895) François Florentin Achille Seillière ‘BIBLIOTHÈQUE DE MELLO”, 2. barón de Seillière [1873-05-14] 1872 - 1873-05-10 (price: 10.000 francs) (coat of arms: supra-libros) (Sotheby 1887; Quaritch 1895) London: Bernard Quaritch Ltd. London 1887-02-28 - 1895 (price: 135 libras) (Sotheby, West 2003) |
| Associated persons | Encuadernador Chambolle-Duru, encuadernador Paris (1861 - 1915) (1887-02-28 ad quem) (Sotheby) Dorador Marius-Michel, encuadernador (1890) (Quaritch) |
| References (most recent first) | West (2004), “Los libros españoles que fueron del baron Achille Seillière ahora en la British Library de Londres”, Trabajos
de la VIII Reunión de la Asociación Española de Bibliografía (2003) 165, 170 Catalogado en: Bernard Quaritch (1895-02), Bibliotheca Hispana. A Catalogue of Books in Castilian, Catalan, Portuguese or Otherwise of Spanish Interest. No. 148 xvii, 8-10 , n. 108 Catalogado en: Bernard Quaritch (1890), A Catalogue of Medieval Literature especially of the Romances of Chivalry , n. 299 Catalogado en: Sotheby & Co. (1887-02-28), La Bibliothèque de Mello. Catalogue of an Important Portion of the Very Choice Library of the late Baron Seillière 4 , n. 23 Catalogado en: Bernard Quaritch (1887), Monuments of the Early Printers in All Countries, Preceded by Part IV: Spain and Portugal; northern and eastern Europe; America, and the East 3854 , n. 37665 Catalogado en: Norton (1978), A Descriptive Catalogue of Printing in Spain and Portugal 1501-1520 231-32 , n. 625 Catalogado en: Sánchez (1913-14), Bibliografía aragonesa del siglo XVI , n. 26 |
| Note | Sotheby: “red morocco super extra, doublé with olive morocco, richly gilt-tooled in an elegant Grolier design, g.e. by Chambolle-Duru,
with the Seillière arms, in a neat case. This book was discovered at Ferrara by M. Tross, and is the only copy of the first
edition of Amadis known to exist. For a full description of the volume see Brunet, Supplement, col. 31, where it is valued
at five or six thousand francs, and perhaps more--or about £250” Quaritch 1895:8-9: “red morocco super extra, doublé with olive morocco, richly gilt-tooled in an elegant Grolier design, gilt edges, by Marius-Michel and Chambolle-Duru, with the Seillière arms on the sides; in a neat case. … Unique. The first edition of the famous Amadis was utterly unknown till this single copy was discovered at Ferrara in 1872, and sold by Tross to Baron Seillière for 10,000 fr.” |
| Subject | Post-incunables (1501-1520) |
Internal Description |
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| Number of texts in volume: | 1 |
| Specific witness ID no. | 1 BETA cnum 7458 |
| Location in volume | ff. 1v-298r (Norton) |
| Uniform Title IDno, Author and Title | texid 4093 Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo, regidor de Medina del Campo. Amadís de Gaula |
| Language | castellano |
| Date | Refundido 1482 - 1492 |
| Title(s) in witness | Los quatro libros del Virtuoso cauallero Amadis de Gaula Complidos, 1r Los quatro libros del esforçado y muy virtuoso cauallero Amadis de Gaula, 298rb |
| Incipits & explicits in MS | prólogo:
[ 1v]
COnsiderando los sabios antiguos que los grandes hechos delas armas rúbrica: [ 2v] Aqui comiença el primero libro del esforçado y virtuoso cauallero Amadis texto: [ 2va] NO muchos años despues dela passion de nuestro redemptor y saluador Iesu xp̃o … [ 298rb] … por aquella ventura y trabajo que le dar quisiessen rúbrica: [ 298r] Acabanse los quatro libros del esforçado y muy virtuoso cauallero Amadis de Gaula … assi de su linaje como amigos suyos colofón: [ 298r] Fueron emprimidos en la muy noble y muy leal ciudad de Caragoça [!] … a .xxx. dias del mes de Otubre Del año del nascimiento de nuestro saluador Iesu xp̃o mil y quinientos y ocho años |
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Created 1994-07-06 Updated 2023-08-13 |