Boniohannes de Messana: Speculum sapientiae.
[Paris: Etienne Jehannot], for Durand Gerlier and Jean Petit, [ca. 1502]
8vo. a-i8. [72] leaves.
Woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC ic01022000; GW 7895; Goff C1022; BMC VIII 201 (IA. 40856); Oates 3144.
Attributed on the title-page to Saint Cyrillus; the true author is Boniohannes de Messana (Kaeppeli I 699) - ISTC.
| GIP number: | B99 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bi6-l.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | With the woodcut device of Jean Petit on a1r (title-page) as in Oates 3144 (not Gerlier’s as in BMC); a1r, line 3: “In cuius ...” not as BMC “In cnius ...”. |
| Bound with: | The second of two items bound together. Bound with: Humbertus de Romanis, Liber eruditionis religiosorum. Paris: Henri Estienne, 12 Mar. 1505 (F. Schreiber, 'The Estiennes', no. 3). |
| Provenance: | Newbattle, Midlothian, Scotland, Cistercians, BVM: inscription on title-page of first item in volume “Liber S[an]c[t]e Marie de Neubotill ex Industria d[omi]nj henricj frog Orate pro anima eius”. Henry Frog (early 16th century), Cistercian, of Newbattle Abbey: see above; listed in Durkan & Ross, Early Scottish Libraries, p. 100. University of Glasgow: shelfmark “G.f.5.n.8.” on title-page of first item in volume matching entry in Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691 (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 1313); shelfmark “AQ.16.11” on University Library bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | Early 16th-century blind-tooled calf over bevelled wooden boards, each cover decorated with a blind-stamped panel surrounded on four sides by a legend (all so worn as to be unidentifiable); single brass clasp (repaired) with catch plate on rear board; restored by Anthony Gardner, whose binder’s note, July 1965, is on rear free endpaper (boards re-covered in African goatskin with original covers feathered on and with new endpapers and flyleaves). Size: 141 x 98 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 133 x 90 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
