Hieronymus, S.: Epistolae.
Venice: Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, 15 May 1488.
Fol. Part I: π6 a-p10 q-r8 ſ8. [180] leaves (π1 blank); 7-180 numbered "I-clxxiiii" in lower margin adjacent to signatures. The second and third leaves of the preliminary quire are numbered but not signed. Part II: v4 A-Z10. [234] leaves (Z10 blank); 5-233 numbered "i-ccxxix" in lower margin adjacent to signatures.
Woodcut printer’s device in red.
ISTC ih00170000; GW 12430; Goff H170; BMC V 309 (IC. 21652); Bod-inc H-088; CIBN H-105; BSB-Ink H-249.
| GIP number: | H19 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bi7-a.2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Adam Hamilton (17th century), Glasgow: inscription on Z9v “Adam Hammyltonn W[i]t[h] my hand Beffore wittnes in glasgow david morisonn burges in glasg[ow] and Ih[o]ne morisonn”, above which are written the names “Ihone morisonn David Lindsay [...]”. David Morison (17th century), Glasgow: see above. John Morison (17th century), Glasgow: see above. David Lindsay (17th century), Glasgow: see above. John Tran (ca. 1645-1704), Regent at University of Glasgow from 1669: see below. University of Glasgow: included in a list of ‘Books bought at Mr Tran’s auction 1704’ in Library acounts from the Clerks’ Press (GUA 58019/13); price recorded as £1.11.0 [i.e. £ Scots]; ‘Ex Libris Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis Empt. propriis Academiae Sumptibus 1704’ on π2r and signed by the Principal ‘Jo. Stirling P.’; scored-through shelfmark ‘AZ:f:1:n:2’ on π2r matching entry in Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691; shelfmark ‘BF.1.1’ on book-plate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 17th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; covers decorated with intersecting double fillets to form a panel within an undecorated frame, the panel divided by a double fillet from corner to corner into four triangles; evidence from nail holes of two now lost fore-edge clasps; rebacked in 19th/20th century and given new pastedowns and endpapers (originals unrecorded); gilt stamp ‘Glasgow College Library’ on spine; lengthy two-line inscription on blackened fore-edge (unread). Size: 439 × 285 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 427 x 284 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand; very occasional manicules and underlining; frequent highlighting of text in light ink wash; faint ownership(?) inscription in top margin of π2r (unread under ultraviolet light); 19th/20th-century numbers in pencil “93/2” on π2r and “164/15” and π2v are probably binders’ job numbers. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves π1 of part I and Z10 of part II; leaves X9 and Z9 of part II mutilated with loss of text. |
