Arnoldus de Geilhoven: Gnotosolitos, sive Speculum conscientiae.
Brussels: [Fratres Vitae Communis], 25 May 1476.
Fol. [1-1310 148 15-2710 288 29-3110 32-338 3410 3512 36-4510 46-488 496]. [474] leaves, 333 blank.
ISTC ia01063000; GW 2512; Goff A1063; Bod-inc A-431; Polain(B) 1558 & 1558A; CIBN A-567; BSB-Ink A-749.
| GIP number: | A99 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.1.3 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | For a description of this copy, see Elly Cockx-Indestege, ‘The Gnotosolitos of Arnold Geilhoven published by the Brothers of the Common Life in Brussels in 1476: observations on the surviving copies as evidence for the distribution’, in M. Davies, ed., 'Incunabula: studies in fifteenth-century printed books presented to Lotte Hellinga' (London: British Library, 1999), p. 40. |
| Variants: | In this copy the so-called 'Presens'-leaf (the incipit of the leaf containing the colophon) is present in variant settings both at the beginning and at the end, i.e. as 1/1v and 48/8r (f. 468r) - cf. GW's main transcription; 1/2r, col. 1, line 2: "... iohāni ...' as GW and Polain(B) 1558A, not '... Iohāni ...' as GW Anm. and Polain(B) 1558; 1/2r, col. 1, line 3: "bruxellēſis." as GW Anm. and Polain(B) 1558, not "... bruxellenſis" as GW's main transcription and Polain(B) 1558A; 4/2r (f. 32r), col. 2, lines 49-50: "... Tercia || ... Quarta", not "... Tera || Quara” - cf. CIBN; 36/1r (f. 345r), col. 2, line 10: “... ſecūda pors ...”, not “... ſecūda pars ...” as Polain(B) 1558 and GW - cf. CIBN. |
| Provenance: | William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ag.5.17”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century calf; covers decorated with a gold-tooled fillet border and a separate floral ornament at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; yellow-edged leaves; front and rear flyleaves have watermark of a an armorial shield: a bend sinister, a fleur-de-lys surmounting the shield and the letters “G R” below the shield. Size: 385 x 290 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 375 x 279 mm. |
| Annotations: | Evidence of early manuscript signatures in brown and in red ink; paginated in ink in an early hand “1”-“11” from 2/4r-2/9r (ff. 14r-19r). |
| Decoration: | A sixteen-line initial “H” on 1/2r is supplied in red and blue with reserved white and surrounded by pen-work lines and stylized leaves which extend into the margins, the bowl of the initial is decorated with sprays of flowers in red, yellow and green on a background of brown cross-hatching; several other principal initials supplied in red and blue with reserved white; smaller initials supplied in red (sometimes with reserved white); paragraph marks in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting gathering 49. |
