Bonaventura, S.: Soliloquium.
Paris: Guy Marchant, partly for Jean Petit, 17 June 1497.
8vo. a-e8 f4. [44] leaves.
Woodcuts.
ISTC ib00955000; Goff B955; BMC VIII 63 (IA. 39677); GW 4692.
| Accession number: | E.1939.65.2549 |
| Provenance: | Unidentified Dominican house: faded inscription “ex Co[mmuni] bibliotheca f[ratrum] praed[icatorum]” on a2r. Unidentified English bookseller (19th century): extract from a bookseller’s catalogue advertising this copy (item number and price not included) pasted onto front pastedown. Robert Lyons Scott (1871-1939), shipbuilder and collector of armour, Greenock: owner; source unknown. Glasgow, Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum: R. L. Scott Bequest, 1939; without a bookplate. |
| Binding: | 16th-century vellum; covers decorated with a double fillet border in blind; manuscript spine title in black ink. Size: 139 x 99 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 138 x 97 mm. |
| Annotations: | First line of incipit on a2r repeated in manuscript “Incipit dialogus” (heavily faded); early foliation “2-43” from a3 onwards. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting a1. |
