Nicolaus de Lyra: Moralia super totam Bibliam.
Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, 1478.
Fol. a-q8 [r]8 s-x8 y-z6 ⁊8 [1-58 610 7-118 126]. [284] leaves (a1, 12/6 blank).
ISTC in00111000; GW M26484; Goff N111; BMC I 222 (IC. 3516); CIBN N-62; BSB-Ink N-120.
| GIP number: | N6 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bk5-b.3 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | University of Glasgow: inscription on a2r “Ex Libris Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis 1727” with Library’s early 18th-century shelfmark “N.2.14”; source unknown; later 18th-century shelfmark “U.5.13” on University Library book-plate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | Low Countries(?), 15th/16th-century calf (rubbed) over oak boards, tooled in blind to a panel design; see J.B. Oldham, Notes on bindings in the Hunterian and general libraries in Glasgow University (1938), p. 4bis. On both covers intersecting triple fillets form a centre panel and three frames. The panel is divided by diagonal intersecting fillets into lozenges and triangles (the former decorated with a square stamp of an angel, the latter with a smaller square stamp of a lion rampant); the inner frame is decorated with a circular stamp resembling a portcullis; the middle frame is decorated with the lion rampant stamp of the centre panel; the outer frame is undecorated; spine covering lost. Five brass bosses on each board; remains of a single brass clasp, catch plate on front board. Original endpapers lost. Binding restored, June 1966, by Anthony Gardner, with his apologia written on rear free endpaper; a small copper strip now riveted to the inside of the rear board is accompanied by A. Gardner’s note ‘This, found under the original paste-down was evidently the fixing for a chain’. Size: 380 x 268. |
| Leaf size: | 366 x 254 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations and manicules in a 16th-century hand; on a2r a 15th/16th-century shelfmark “H.xviii.” (“H” in blue ink, “.xviii.” in red). |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red or in red and reserved white on a2r-d3r, and in some cases the body of an initial is washed in yellow; capitals washed in yellow from a2r-x7r. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting c7-d2 and the blank leaves a1 and 12/6. |
