Bossus, Matthaeus: De instituendo sapientia animo.
With additions by Marcus Antonius Aldegatus.
Bologna: Franciscus (Plato) de Benedictis, 6 Nov. 1495.
4to. π4 A-I8 k8 L-P8 Q4. [128] leaves.
Woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC ib01043000; GW 4954; Goff B1043; BMC VI 828 (IA. 28934); Bod-inc B-487; CIBN B-731; BSB-Ink B-759.
| GIP number: | B102 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-f.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Pavia, Franciscans, Convento di San Giacomo della Vernavola (founded 1421, suppressed 1805): inscription in a humanist hand on Q4v “Pertinet ad locu[m] S[anct]i Jacobi apud Papia[m]”. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: source unknown; an early Euing inventory number “46” in pencil on verso of front free endpaper. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century straight-grained black goatskin, decorated with a double blind fillet at edges; gilt bands on spine and gilt title; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; binder’s ticket on front pastedown “Bound by Carss & Co.y Glasgow”. Size: 199 x 150 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 193 x 143 mm. |
| Annotations: | Brief marginal annotation in Latin in a humanist hand on H7v with nota marks continuing onto H8r; single textual correction on A7r; guide-letter “m” supplied on π2r; liturgical annotation in a humanist hand on Q4v beginning “Offi[ciu]m S[anct]i Gabrielis Arcangeli du[ple]x mai[us] ...”; title added in a 16th-century hand below colophon on Q4r “Epistole d[omi]ni Mathei Bossi”; “folio 280” and “no. [ink blemish?] i2” in a 16th-century(?) hand on Q4v. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
