Bernardus Claravallensis, S.: Sermones super Cantica canticorum.
Add: Gilbertus de Hoilandia: Sermones super Cantica canticorum.
Strassburg: Martin Flach (printer of Strassburg), 1497.
Fol. π10 a8 b-c6 d-g6.8 h-r6 s8 ⁊4 A8 B-I6 K-L8. [202] leaves (s8, L8 blank). Preliminary quire numbered but not signed.
ISTC ib00430000; GW 3937; Goff B430; BMC I 154 (IB. 2206); CIBN B-275; BSB-Ink B-326.
| GIP number: | B29 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-c.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | The preliminary quire, which is signed with arabic numerals, is bound at the end. |
| Provenance: | William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: source unknown; an early Euing inventory number “No 1” in pencil on front flyleaf. 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; gilt bands on spine and gilt title; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; green silk bookmark; binder’s ticket on front pastedown “Bound by Carss & Coy. Glasgow”. Size: 304 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 297 x 205 mm. |
| Annotations: | Margins of leaves π2-8 of the preliminary quire Tabula alphabetica profusely annotated in Latin in a 16th-century hand; brief marginal annotations on a3r and a7r; occasional nota marks and underlining; signature h3 which is erroneously signed "h2" is corrected in manuscript. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting π1 (title) of the preliminary quire and all after the blank leaf s8, i. e. the Sermones super Cantica canticorum of Gilbertus de Hoilandia. |
