Leonardus de Utino: Quadragesimale aureum.
[Venice: Franciscus Renner, de Heilbronn, not after 23 Oct.] 1471.
4to. [1-1310 148 15-1910 208 216]. [202] leaves.
ISTC il00140000; GW M17870; Goff L140; BMC V 191 (IB. 19823, 19824); Bod-inc L-071; CIBN L-119; BSB-Ink L-105.
| GIP number: | L16 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-e.2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 6/1 (f. 51) straight-shanked “h” only, as BMC's second copy (IB. 19823); 16/3r (f. 151r) straight-shanked “h” only, as BMC’s first copy (IB. 19824). |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Brescia, convent of S. Florianus: early ownership inscription on 21/5v (f. 201v) “Iste lib[er] est conuentus sancti floriani: extra muros Brixie”; other inscriptions denoting the same provenance on 1/1r and 21/6v (f. 202v). Sir Mark Masterman Sykes (1771-1823), 3rd Bt, of Sledmere House, Driffield, East Yorkshire: oval leather armorial book label, gilt, on front pastedown; lot 119 in Catalogue of the splendid, curious, and extensive library of the late Sir Mark Masterman Sykes, Bart. Part the second (London: Evans, 1824). John Henry Bohn (ca. 1757-1843), bookseller, London: purchased book at Sykes sale for £1.18.0 according to the annotated copy of the Sykes sale catalogue in University of Glasgow Library (Mu37-d.7). William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: source unknown; an early Euing inventory number "4" and Euing's armorial bookplate on front free endpaper. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to one of the two University Library bookplates on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 18th-century gold-tooled parchment; covers decorated with a border of fillets and corner pieces; gold-tooled spine (including a representation of an obelisk), brown leather spine label; marbled endpapers; sprinkled red-edged leaves; brown silk bookmark. Size: 276 x 209 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 272 x 204 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations throughout in a 15th/16th-century hand; frequent interlinear corrections of text; occasional manicules; chapter headings frequently supplied in red ink; rectos foliated at extreme top right-hand corner in an early hand (in red ink up to leaf 26, thereafter in brown ink), many leaf numbers cropped by binder; folio numbers added to the list of sermons on 21/6r (f. 202r). |
| Decoration: | Four-line initial “T” on 1/1r supplied in red with brown pen-work decoration; other initials supplied in red or in purple with red decoration throughout; paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red (some lower case letters also included) on every page up to 14/2r (f. 132r), thereafter less frequently. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
