Mancinus, Dominicus: Carmen de passione Christi.

Add:  Oratio ad Virginem.

[Paris: Ulrich Gering, ca. 1484]
4to.   a-b8.   [16] leaves.
Newly identified edition, as verified by GW (March 2011).
ISTC im00148900;  GW M2037833.

Note:  Imprint details suggested by GW (March, 2011) following typographical analysis by GW.  Also ascribed to [Paris: Johannes Higman, c.1488].  For a closely similar edition, see ISTC im00149000 (GW M2037834).  And for a description of the two editions, see the online Annmary Brown Memorial Library catalogue record https://search.library.brown.edu/catalog/b1893514.  The setting of the Glasgow copy is identical to that of the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Inc 755 Pièce 5, digitized at http://mazarinum.bibliotheque-mazarine.fr/idurl/1/2038, though that copy (July 2017) is entered at ISTC im00149000.

GIP number: M13
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll T.C.L. 451 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance: Edward Knight (fl. 1857-1874), bookseller, Islington, London:  sold book to William Euing.
William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow:  purchased from Knight 25 Apr. 1868 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note and price code “25.4.68  i/- EKnt” on verso of front free endpaper, together with his inventory number “No 3716”.
Free Church College Library, Glasgow (later Trinity College Library), founded 1856:  presented to the College by William Euing, May 1872 (see GUL MS Euing 50);  oval embossed ownership stamp “Free Church College Library, Glasgow” on a1r and b4r;  traces of erased Trinity College Library shelfmark on verso of front free endpaper.
University of Glasgow:  Trinity College Library placed on permanent deposit in Glasgow University Library in 1974 by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Binding: England, 19th-century half brown goatskin, marbled sides;  gold-tooled spine;  marbled endpapers;  sprinkled red-edged leaves;  binder’s stamp at lower edge of verso of front free endpaper “Tuckett Binder to the Queen”.   Size:  206 x 144 mm.
Leaf size: 200 x 139 mm.
Annotations: None.
Decoration: Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red or blue throughout;  capital strokes supplied in yellow throughout.
Imperfections: None.

 

Ligature ‘ae’ in Mancinus, Dominicus: Carmen de passione Christi