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Sermo Domini in monte: PB 2-1981

Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

Sermo Domini in monte
Translated as: Sermon on the mount. Dutch & Latin.

Maker(s)

Publisher: Officina Bodoni
Bookbinder: Cockerell, Sydney Morris
Bookbinder: Tebbutt, Joan

Categories

Description

Half title: Sancti Evangelii secundum Matthaeum capita V, VI, VII.
Latin text from the Vulgate, with a minor change in the Lord's prayer; followed by the Dutch version by the Vereniging 'Petrus Canisius, ' with half title De Bergrede.
"Een oplage van 50 exemplaren . Exemplaar 43."

Bound in toned calf vellum; blocked in gold, with the Lord's Prayer on both boards. Inside of the boards edged with brown morocco; brown Japanese handmade end papers with individually marbled motifs. Designed and tooled by Joan Tebbutt and S. M. Cockerell - monogrammed and dated "19 J SC T 80".

Legal notes

Purchased from the W. S. Blunt Fund, with the aid of the Victoria and Albert Museum Grant-in-Aid Fund from Duval and Hamilton, bk.sellers.

Place(s) associated

  • Verona ⪼ Italy

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1981)

Dating

1953 CE - 1980 CE

Note

"This book was printed by Robert and Moira Gibbings at the Golden Cockerel Press at Waltham Saint Lawrence in Berkshire. Begun on the 20th of February, 1931, it was completed on the 28th October in the same year. Compositors: F. Young and A. H. Gibbs. Pressman: A. C. Cooper. 500 copies have been printed, of which numbers 1-12 are on vellum. This is No. [in ms] 96."--Colophon. Provenance: purchased from the W.S. Blunt Fund, with the aid of the Victoria & Albert grant-in-aid fund from Duvat & Hamilton, bk.- sellers. Accesssion no. 810459. Bound in toned vellum; tooled in gold, with black ink brush lettering on the spine. Designed and tooled by Joan Tebbutt and S. M. Cockerell - monogrammed and dated "19 J SC T 79". Edge of pages gilt. In special case constructed by the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 2-1981
Primary reference Number: 222824
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Audit data

Created: Tuesday 21 November 2017 Updated: Tuesday 21 November 2017 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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