Augustinus, Aurelius: De civitate dei.
Commentary by Thomas Waleys and Nicolaus Trivet.
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 5 Sept. 1473.
Fol. [1-410 54 (5/3+1) 6-1010 1110 (±11/10) 12-1310 144 (14/3+1) 1510 1612 17-2010 214 (21/1+1) 22-2710 288 2910 308 (30/6+1) 31-3310 3410 (34/9+1) 35-3810]. [365] leaves, the last blank.
Woodcut printer’s devices in red.
ISTC ia01240000; GW 2884; Goff A1240; BMC I 29 (IC. 180); Bod-inc A-526; CIBN A-680; BSB-Ink A-856
Two copies held by the University of Glasgow
Copy 1
| GIP number: | A116/1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.1.4 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Variants: | 1/1r, col.1, line 5: “... agentium ...” not as GW “... agētium ...”; 1/1r, col. 2, lines 21-22 beginning “Incipiūt capitula ...” are printed in black, not red as GW and BMC; 1/2r, col. 1, lines 1-2: “... do=|ctoris ...” not as GW “... doc=|toris ...”; 30/8r (f. 284r), col. 2, lines 31-35 (first colophon): setting is as GW Anm.; second colophon on 38/9r (f. 364r) as GW variant 3. |
| Provenance: | Wiener Neustadt, Austria, Pauline Hermits: inscription on 1/1r “Mon[aster]rij Neostadiensi[s] Ord[inis]: S: Pauli Primi Eremitae”. Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 241 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 55 livres 6 sous; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ag.5.16”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark; front flyleaf has bunch of grapes watermark. Size: 408 x 282 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 395 x 268 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations and “nota” marks in brown ink in a humanist hand in gatherings 1, 3, 7, 9, 12-15; piece of paper affixed with sealing wax to front flyleaf containing a note by William Hunter referring to variant setting of 30/8r (f. 284r). |
| Decoration: | Several calligraphic initials supplied in brown ink in gatherings 1-6 and 12-15, together with several plain initials in brown ink. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
Copy 2
| GIP number: | A116/2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll T.C.L. e2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Notes: | Commentary and Index (gatherings 31-38 i.e. leaves 285-365) are bound at the beginning. Printer's pin-holes visible. Stubs showing for all inserted leaves. |
| Variants: | 1/1r, col.1, line 5: “... agentium ...” not as GW “... agētium ...”; 1/1r, col. 2, lines 21-22 beginning “Incipiūt capitula ...” are printed in black, not red as GW and BMC; 1/2r, col. 1, lines 1-2: “... do=|ctoris ...” not as GW “... doc=|toris ...”; 30/8r (f. 284r), col. 2, lines 31-35 (first colophon): setting is as GW Anm.; second colophon on 38/9r (f. 364r) is as GW main transcription. |
| Provenance: | William Pickering (1796-1854), bookseller and publisher, London: lot 289 “fine large copy, in the original monastic binding” in 'Catalogue of the third portion of the extensive collection of valuable books formed by Mr. William Pickering' (London: Sotheby & Wilkinson, Oct. 1854); sold for £1.1.0 to the bookseller, William Straker, according to the annotated copy of the Pickering sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (shelfmark BD17-h.30). William Straker (fl. 1810-1854) bookseller, London: presumably bought book on behalf of William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased 30 Oct. 1854 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note and price code on front pastedown “30-10-54 No 289 Pick. ba/”; an early Euing inventory number “No 80” in pencil on front pastedown. Glasgow, Free Church College Library (later Trinity College Library), founded 1856: presented by Euing, April 1867 (see GUL MS Euing 50); various Trinity College Library shelfmarks on front pastedown and on front free endpaper “12/1”, “1/C/1”, “1P1”, and “20/2 6”. University of Glasgow: Trinity College Library placed on permanent deposit in University of Glasgow Library in 1974 by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland. |
| Binding: | Germany, 15th/16th-century blind-tooled pigskin over partially bevelled wooden boards. On the front cover triple and double fillets form four concentric rectangles; the inner rectangle is decorated with lozenge-shaped stamps containing a rosette, which are placed placed edge to edge to form diagonal rows; the second rectangle is decorated with a repeated circular stamp of a griffin(?) flanked at each side by a curved tendril-like tool (Rautengerank); the third rectangle is decorated with a single row of the same rosette stamps; the outer rectangle is undecorated. On the rear cover triple and double fillets form a centre panel surrounded by two undecorated frames; the panel is divided from corner to corner by triple fillets to form four triangles. Two brass and leather clasps, the brass with a floral design; catch plates on the front board; evidence of now lost corner-pieces and centre-pieces. 19th-century paper pastedowns, which may conceal early parchment pastedowns – from evidence of a parchment stub containing a manuscript fragment of Gregory the Great’s ‘Moralia’, which is visible between the final two quires in the volume. Size: 434 × 290 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 412 x 286 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations and numbering in a 15th/16th-century hand; gatherings numbered in an early hand in middle of lower margin in two sequences: “1”-“8” (Commentary and Index) and “1”-“30” (Text) - some numbers cropped; early signatures in lower right-hand corner; deleted (ownership?) inscription on 31/1r (f. 285r). |
| Decoration: | Principal initials supplied in red and blue with reserved white; other initials throughout supplied in alternate red and blue (some with reserved white, and some with marginal flourishes); paragraph marks supplied in red; capital strokes in red throughout; occasional underlining in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the final blank leaf. |
