Buschius, Hermannus: In Frederici episcopi Traiectensis inthronizationem hecatosticha.
[Deventer: Richardus Pafraet, ca. 1497]
4to. [14]. [4] leaves (1/4 blank).
ISTC ib01331500; GW 5799.
Dated on paper evidence (WILC). HPT dated [between 21 June 1491 and 2 Dec. 1497] and GW [ca. 17 Sept. 1496].
| GIP number: | B125 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BC6-h.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Georg Franz Burkhard Kloss (1787-1854), physician, Frankfurt am Main: a Kloss library binding; lot 838 in Catalogue of the library of Dr. Kloss of Franckfort a.M. … (London: Sotheby, 1835); Kloss’s references to Panzer on front pastedown; evidence of a book-plate or label removed from front pastedown - probably the Kloss book-label. Sir William Hamilton (1788-1856), Professor of Logic and Metaphysics, University of Edinburgh: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hamilton collection donation, 1878. |
| Binding: | Germany, 19th-century brown and green marbled paper boards, manuscript title on blue paper affixed to front cover. Size: 196 x 139 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 195 x 138 mm. |
| Annotations: | On 1/1r in a late 15th/early 16th-century hand are three couplets headed “Alexander Haegi[us] de epo[dis]” i.e. Alexander Hegius of Heek (d. Deventer, 1498), under whose influence, as headmaster at St Lebuin’s school, Deventer developed into a centre of humanist education - among his pupils were Erasmus, Jacobus Montanus, and the author of this tract, Hermannus Buschius (see Contemporaries of Erasmus: a biographical register of the Renaissance and Reformation, ed. by Peter G. Bietenholz & Thomas B. Deutscher, vol. II, p. 173. On 1/1v a half page of annotations in Latin with occasional words in Greek in a 16th/17th-century hand. On front pastedown various 19th-century pencil annotations “2023/29”, “Early Specimen of Printing”, “3hgg(?)-97/B”, and a possible price “2/-” (written over what appears to be “1/-”); at foot of 1/4v a price(?) in pencil in a 19th-century hand “29/-”. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
| Digital version: | Available via Flickr. |
