Caracciolus, Robertus: Sermones de adventu, Sermo de S. Joseph, Sermo de Beatitudine, Sermones de divina caritate, Sermones de immortalitate animae.
[Strassburg: The R-Printer (Johann Mentelin and Adolf Rusch), not after 1475]
Fol. [16 210 38 412 5-88 9-106 11-1610.8 17-218]. [174] leaves, 1/1 and 2/1 blank.
ISTC ic00138000; Goff C138; BMC I 63 (IB. 625); Bod-inc C-063; GW 6046; CIBN C-80; BSB Ink C-110.
| GIP number: | C19 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.19 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 16/1r (f. 127r), line 2 ends “... de Le||tio ...” as in GW Anm. 1 not “... de Li||tio ...” as in GW’s main transcription. |
| Provenance: | Charpillet (16th/17th century), France: inscription on 1/2r “Ex liberalitate D[omi]ni Charpillet fratris charissimi me possidet Claudius Franciscus Sonnet sacra[e] theologia[e] Doctor”. Claude François Sonnet (fl. 1609): inscription on 2/2r (f. 8r) “Sum claudij francisci sonnet sacrae Theologiae Doctoris 1609”. Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 348 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat', 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 8 livres; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 26r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aa.7.5”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century mottled calf, covers decorated with a border of triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 272 x 207 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 265 x 198 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious critical marginal annotations in an early 17th-century hand (that of Claude François Sonnet) in Latin - and with a lengthy annotation by him in French on 2/6v (f. 12v); occasional marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand; paginated “1”-“115” in a 17th-century hand, starting at 2/2r (f. 8r) and ending at 8/4r (f. 64r); 1/2r and 1/3r numbered “2” and “3” in lower right-hand corner; cropped number “10”(?) at top edge of 1/2r. |
| Decoration: | Initials, paragraph marks, underlining and capital strokes supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf, 1/1. |
