Adam, Magister: Summula sacramentorum Raymundi de Pennaforte metrificata.
Delft: [Christiaen Snellaert or Hendrik Eckert, van Homberch], 1497.
4to. a-s6 t4 v6 x4 y-z6 aa-bb6 cc4 dd6 (a2 missigned “aj”; dd4 missigned “ddii”). [24], xxv-cxlix, [7] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ia00046500; Polain(B) 9; GW 214.
Imprint from ISTC; Polain and GW assign to the press of Christiaen Snellaert.
According to ISTC a metrical compendium of the 'Summa sacramentorum' of Raymundus de Pennaforte: see F. Valls Taberner, La 'Summula Pauperum' de Adam de Alderspach, in 'Gesammelte Aufsätze zur Kulturgeschichte Spaniens', 7 (1938) pp. 69-83 (CIBN).
| GIP number: | A5 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Ferguson Ai-x.21 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | A blank leaf has been inserted between gatherings a and b. |
| Provenance: | Petrus Passens (fl. 1566): on a1r “Fr Petrus Passens me utitur 1566”. Philippe de Raulin (fl. 1608): on a1r “Ad vsu[m] d. Philippi de Raulin 1608”. Douai, Jesuits, Collège d’Anchin (founded 1568, suppressed 1764): “Anchin” on a1r and a2r. Douai, Bibliothèque Municipale: circular ink library stamp “Bibliothèque Publique Douai” on a1r overprinted with “Echange” and to the right of the stamp, in pencil, “Double de 123 F”. John Ferguson (1837-1916), Professor of Chemistry, University of Glasgow: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Ferguson collection purchase, 1921. |
| Binding: | Netherlands(?), 15th/16th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards, decorated with a double fillet and separate stamps (all heavily worn); rebacked with cloth; paper title label on spine and two other labels, one with number ‘A/18’ the other with number ‘46’; remains of two brass clasps, catch plates on front board; front pastedown is part of a vellum bifolium from a rubricated manuscript prayer book; rear endpapers are of 19th-century paper. Size: 222 x 143 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 209 x 138 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent early marginal annotations in several hands - mainly in black but some in red ink, a few in purple; frequent underlining in red and brown ink; 19th-century numbers in pencil “51/658” and “27” on a1r; number "10417" and codes "u/" and "z/" in pencil on rear pastedown. |
| Decoration: | Eight-line initial “C” on a2r and eight-line initial “S” on b1r supplied in red with blue pen decoration; other initials supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
