Libro jn titulado nobiliario perfetamente copylado & ordenado /
Mexía, Fernando,active 15th century.
Brun, Pedro,active 1477-1506,printer.
Gentil, Juan,active 1492-1498,printer.
Astorga,Marquises de,former owner.StEdNL
Thorpe, Thomas,1791-1851,bookseller.StEdNL
Seville : Peter Brun and Juan Gentil,
30 June 1492.
Imprint from ISTC.
First book on heraldry printed in Spain.
First edition.
Woodcuts: ill., initials, coats of arms, banners, etc.
Author's colophon (fol. 96r, col. 2, line 19): ... Començose en̄l año de mill y quatroçientos & sete[n]ta & siete años. En fin d[e]l mes de abril. Acabose de escreuir & de orregir a xv dias del mes de mayo año del Señor de mill & quatroçientos & ochenta & çinco años &c. A dios graçias.
Printer's colophon: Acabose la presente obra sabado xxx de junio año dela jncarnaçion de mill y cccc.xcij años. En la muy noble y lleal cibdad d[e] Seujlla jnpressa por llos onrrados varones maestros Pedro Brun, Iua[n] Gentil fiel & verdaderamente corregida &c.
Signatures: a⁶ b-h⁸ i¹⁰ k-m⁸.
3 columns in table, 2 columns elsewhere. 47 lines and head-line. Types: 117 G., headlines, chapter headings, other headings; 90 G. Capitals, Lombards. Printed in black and red.
Hain's entry for an edition of 1485 (no. 11132) is due to a confusion of the date of completion of the writing and correction of the work as given in the author's colphon with that of printing--BM 15th cent.
ISTC
Goff
Haebler, K. Bib. ibérica,
Vindel, F. Arte tipográfico,
BM 15th cent.,
Bodleian Lib. 15th cent.,
BN cat. des incun.,
IGI
IDL
Proctor
Morgan
Hain
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Acquired by the Advocates Library from Thomas Thorpe as part of the Astorga collection in 1826.
Old parchment with remains of ties.
Nobility
Chivalry
Heraldry
Spain Seville.