Augustinus, Aurelius: De vita beata.
Add: [Pseudo-] Augustinus (Caesarius Arelatenis): De fuga mulierum ; [Pseudo-] Bernardus Claravallensis (Bernardus Silvestris?): Speculum de honestate vitae.
[Cologne: Ulrich Zel, ca. 1470-72]
4to. [1-38]. [24] leaves.
ISTC dates ca. 1470-72 following CIBN; Bod-inc dates ca. 1470. De fuga mulierum also known as De honestate mulierum. Speculum de honestate vitae also known as De forma vitae honestae.
ISTC ia01353000; GW 2932; Goff A1353; Bod-inc A-564; CIBN A-674; BSB-Ink A-881.
| GIP number: | A120 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.20 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Gerson, Johannes, De simplificatione cordis. [Cologne: Ulrich Zel, ca. 1470]. |
| Provenance: | Metz, Lorraine, Celestine Monastery (suppressed 1774): heavily erased shelfmark and ownership inscription on 1/1r “B.13 deae(?) c[elestinorum] de metis”; on lower margin of 1/3r a partially erased inscription “Istud volu[men] e[st] [conventus] [bea]te marie [ce]lesti[n]or[um] de metis Aug[...]”. Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): lot 48 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M***' (Paris: 1770). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Peter Molini, for 14 livres 19 sous; see Molini’s bill to Hunter (University of Glasgow Library, Hunter Papers H214). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ax.7.10”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin, covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 218 x 147 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 212 x 140 mm. |
| Annotations: | Early signatures "a"-"c" in red ink; gatherings numbered in black ink "1"-"3" in an early hand (numbers partially cropped); both sequences continued in the second item in the volume, indicating that the two works were bound together at an early date. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red throughout; many capitals washed in faded yellow. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
