Cassiodorus, Magnus Aurelius: Historia ecclesiastica tripartita.
[Augsburg]: Johann Schüssler, ca. 5 Feb. 1472.
Fol. [112 2-910 106 1110 (11/10+1) 12-1910 206]. [195] leaves, the first, 1/1, and last two, 20/5-6, blank.
ISTC ic00237000; Goff C237; BMC II 329 (IB. 5627); Bod-inc C-106; GW 6164; CIBN C-13; BSB-Ink C-169.
The colophon reads 'Circiter nonas februarias'.
| GIP number: | C25 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-b.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 1/2r, line 5: '...ponit;' as GW's main transcription, not '...ponitur;' as GW Anm. |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Dominican house (unidentified): on 1/2r a partially erased inscription “Conuentus [...]is Ord[in]is Praed[icatoru]m”. John Mozley Stark (fl. 1851-1888), bookseller, stationer, printer, and publisher, Hull & London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: “No 93” (Euing’s inventory number) in ink on 1/1r; purchased from Stark 3 June 1857 according to Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49); earlier Euing inventory number "85" in pencil on front pastedown. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century blind-tooled panelled calf, bevelled edges; binder’s ticket on front pastedown “Bound by Carss & Coy. Glasgow.” Size: 329 x 226 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 317 x 214 mm. |
| Annotations: | Traces of early manuscript signatures at extreme lower left-hand corner of many recto leaves; 19th-century price code “dk/” in pencil on 1/1r. |
| Decoration: | Seven-line initial “U” on 1/2r and seven-line initial “F” on 1/3r supplied in red and reserved white with red pen-work infill and with red and purple pen-flourishing into margin; other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the final blank leaf, 20/6. |
