Henricus de Balma: Stimulus amoris.

Edited by Johannes Quentin.

Paris:  Georg Mittelhus, 4 Apr. 1493.
8vo.   A-R⁸.   [136] leaves (R7-8 blank).
ISTC ib00965000;  GW 4823;  Goff B965;  BMC VIII 126 (IA. 40057);  Bod-inc B-458;  CIBN B-682.

Though traditionally attributed to Saint Bonaventura, this is a compilation by Henricus de Balma, incorporating the Stimulus amoris of Jacobus Mediolanensis - cf. CIBN B-680.

GIP number:	H3
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll BE6-h.13 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	Blind impression of one line of type on A1.
Variant:	Setting of quires A and B is as GW's main transcription, not as GW Anm.
Bound with:	The second of two incunabula bound together.   Bound with:  Guilelmus de Lanicia, Diaeta salutis.  Paris:  Pierre Le Dru, 30 June 1498 (G56).
Provenance:	Joannes Leddippe (16th century):  inscriptions on A1r “Codex Joannis Leddippe” and “Liber Joannis Leddippe & amicorum”. University of Glasgow:  source unknown;  shelfmark “I. f5. n.[10]” (lightly scored through) on a3r of first item in volume matching entry “Stimulus Divini amoris per Bonaventuram in 8vo Edit: Paris: 1493 [sic]. Mancus” in Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691 (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 1313);  a later University Library shelfmark “CL f5 [rest of shelfmark cropped]” on a3r of first item in volume;  not recorded in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae:  1791).
Binding:	Scotland, 19th-century calf, bevelled edges (probably by Carss & Co., Glasgow);  marbled endpapers;  red-edged leaves.   Size:  140 x 95 mm.
Leaf size:	135 x 89 mm.
Annotations:	Single marginal annotation in an early hand on K4v;  number “24/390” in pencil in a 19th-century hand on rear flyleaf (probably a binder’s job number).
Decoration:	None.
Imperfections:	Wanting the blank leaves R7-8.