Herolt, Johannes: Postilla super epistolas et evangelia.
[Augsburg: Johann Wiener], 1476.
Fol. [1-510 610 (6/2+χ1) 710 8-108 1110 128 13-1410 1510 (15/9+χ1) 1612 1710 1812 19-2210 238 24-3110]. [306] leaves (18/12, 31/10 i.e. ff. 178, 306 blank). Foliated (with errors): [1] .j.-.CCCij. [1].
ISTC ig00671000; GW 11935; Goff G671; BMC II 357 (IB. 6123); Bod-inc G-320; BSB-Ink H-133.
Author’s name given in the text as Guilelmus Parisiensis; in fact the Postilla is the work of Johannes Herolt (cf. Bod-inc and BSB-Ink H-133).
| GIP number: | H12 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.2.5 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | This copy does not have the printed addendum to supply five lines of text on Gasophilacium omitted from 17/7v (f. 163v), which in some copies is inserted between leaves 17/7 and 17/8 - cf. GW and BMC. |
| Note: | Imposition error in quire 25: text of 25/2v (f. 238v), which is printed upside down, is that of 24/3r (f. 229r). |
| Provenance: | Wiener Neustadt, Austria, Pauline Hermits: ‘Mon[aste]rij Neostadiensis Ord[inis] S[ancti] Pauli P[rimi] Er[emitae]’ on 1/2r. William Hunter (1718-1783): physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 18th-century gold-tooled red goatskin; covers decorated with a frame composed of an anthemion roll and floral roll within fillets, and a centre panel formed by the same anthemion roll (the panel embellished with separate ornaments at its inner and outer corners); gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves, gauffered; marbled endpapers; flyleaves have watermark of a fleur-de-lys within a shield surmounted by a crown. Size: 295 × 208 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 285 x 192 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand; extensive marginalia in a later hand on 24/7r (f. 233r); nine-line annotation in a 16th-century hand on 1/1r captioned ‘Disciplina Paris’. |
| Decoration: | Three initials on 5/1v, 5/10r, 6/4v (ff. 41v, 50r, 54v) supplied in red; a few other (crudely worked) initials and guide-letters in black in quires 1 and 2. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves 18/12 (f. 178) and 31/10 (f. 306). |
