Duranti, Guillelmus: Rationale divinorum officiorum.
Augsburg: Günther Zainer, 22 Jan. 1470.
Fol. [12 2-510.8 610 76 810 98 (9/7+χ1) 1010 118 (11/7+χ1) 1210 138 (13/7+χ1) 1410 156 (15/5+χ1) 16-2310.8 2410 256 (25/5+χ1)]. [217] leaves.
ISTC id00404000; GW 9103; Goff D404; BMC II 315 (IC. 5413); Bod-inc D-181; CIBN D-279.
| GIP number: | D31 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD12-a.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Stubs showing between 9/1 and 9/2, 11/1 and 11/2, 13/1 and 13/2, 15/1 and 15/2, 25/1 and 25/2. |
| Provenance: | Bonaventura Schmaus (early 17th century), Franciscan in Bamberg, Bavaria: inscription on front pastedown “Frater Bonauentura Schma[us] ordinis Sancti Francisci de obseruantia ad usum Fratrum et Patrum comparauit et reliquit anno à partu virginis 1624 decimoseptimo Aprilis” and on rear free endpaper, in same hand, “Frater Bonauentura Schmaus ordinis S. Francisci de obseruantia in Bamberg”. Bamberg, Bavaria, Franciscans, S. Anna: see above. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: an early Euing inventory number "52" in pencil on front pastedown; source unknown. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library book-plate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | Germany, 16th-century blind-tooled pigskin (later varnished) over partially bevelled wooden boards. The design of the front cover consists of a centre panel of the Crucifixion with the legend ‘ECCE AGNVS DEI QVI TOLLIT PECCATA MVNDI’ surrounded by four frames; the innermost frame is a roll of named medallion heads (depicting Luther ‘MARTINVS LVT’, Melancthon ‘PHILIPP MELA’, and Huss ‘IOANNES HVS’); the second frame is a roll depicting Biblical characters with legends ‘ECCE ANGNVS DE’, ‘DATA EST MIHI OM’, ‘DE FRVCTV VENT’, and ‘APPARVIT BENIG’; the third frame is a foliate roll, and the outermost frame is a roll of unnamed heads within wreaths. The rear cover has a similar design using the same four rolls but with a centre panel of the Resurrection with the legend ‘MORS VBI EST TVVS ACVLEVS VBI VICTOREM TVA INFERNE’. Remains of two brass clasps with catch plates on front board; spine undecorated; remains of later title labels; lightly sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 408 × 285 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 386 x 275 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations in 16th-century hands; occasional underlining in brown or red ink; early running book numbers “1” to “8” in the centre of the upper margin of every page; heavily deleted provenance(?) inscription on front free endpaper beginning “Fr:”; 19th-century pencil number “1/101” on front pastedown; price code in ink on rear pastedown "bn/”. |
| Decoration: | On 2/1r (f. 3r) a ten-line initial ‘Q’ in two shades of purple (the body of the letter infilled with black with grey tracery, is set on a square ground of yellow and green) from which long leafy stems in purple, green and yellow extend into the inner margin. Similary decorated large initials in a wide range of colours are supplied at the beginning of each of the eight books of the text; smaller initials supplied in red or blue; capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting quire 1 (Table of contents). |
