Turrecremata, Johannes de: Expositio super toto psalterio.
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 11 Sept. 1474.
Fol. [1-810 910 (9/1+1) 10-1610 1712]. [173] leaves (in the final quire, leaves have horizontal chain lines except for 17/3.10).
Printer’s device in red.
ISTC it00520000; GW M48203; Goff T520; BMC I 31 (IB. 191); Bod-inc T-273; CIBN T-376; BSB-Ink T-548.
| GIP number: | T36 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.2.5 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Note: | Stub showing between 9/9 and 9/10. Bifolium 17/1.12 misbound as a separate 18th quire of two leaves. |
| Variant: | 1/1r, line 1: “... clemētiſſimo ...”; line 2: “... Iohānes ...”; line 3: “... / ſcē ...” - all as in Bod-inc copy 2, not as in Bod-inc copy 1. |
| Provenance: | Trier, Benedictines, S. Maria ad Martyres: inscription (partially legible under ultra violet lamp) on 1/1r “Codex m[ona]ste[r]ij b[eate] M[ari]e ad m[artir]es p[ro]pe Treueri[m] sup[er] lit[us] moselle ord[inis] s[an]ctj benedictj”. Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 139 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 30 livres; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “T.6.8”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 320 x 224 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 311 x 208 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional brief marginal annotations in Latin and “nota” marks in an early hand; signatures added in an early hand at extreme lower right-hand corner of recto leaves (a few cropped by binder). |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied throughout in red and reserved white or in red alone; capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlining in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
