Carcano, Michael de: Sermonarium de peccatis per adventum et per duas quadragesimas.
Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, and Nicolaus de Frankfordia, 1476.
Fol. & 4to. Part I: [π]2 a-y10 1-410 5-78. [286] leaves. Part II: [π]2 A10 B-P8 Q-R10 S8 T10. [162] leaves, the first, [pi]1, and last, T10, blank.
ISTC ic00194000; Goff C194; BMC V 193 (IB. 19851); Bod-inc C-086; GW 6129; CIBN C-110; BSB-Ink C-147.
| GIP number: | C22 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.25 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | The setting of a1r is as GW, not the variant setting described in CIBN's copy printed on parchment. |
| Note: | In Part I quires “1” and “2” are transposed. |
| Provenance: | Frater Johannes (16th century), Franciscan, of Metz: inscription on T9v “Ad usu[m] fr[at]ris Jo. met[is] deuido or[din]is mi[n]or[um]”; a similar inscription on a1r written over an earlier provenance inscription. Unidentified owner (16th century): unread ownership inscription on [π1r] of part I written over an earlier inscription. Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 349 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 14 livres 1 sou; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 25r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ay.5.8”. |
| 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; green silk bookmark. Size: 222 x 160 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 213 x 149 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
