Gregorius IX, Pont. Max.: Decretales cum glossa.
Commentary by Bernardus Parmensis.
Venice: Andreas Torresanus, de Asula, Bartholomaeus de Blavis, de Alexandria, Maphaeus de Paterbonis, 22 June 1482.
4to. a-z8 ⁊8 ↄ8 ꝝ8 A-Z8 aa-bb8 cc12. [420] leaves.
ISTC ig00456000; GW 11465; Goff G456; BMC V 306 (IB. 21599); BSB-Ink G-343.
| GIP number: | G51 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bm5-f.16 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | University of Glasgow: source unknown; shelfmark “F.f.2.n.[4]” on a3r matching entry in Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691 (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 1313); shelfmark “AY.1.7” on University Library bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 17th-century blind-tooled calf; covers decorated with a triple-fillet border; red-edged leaves. Size: 244 x 177 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 232 x 166 mm. |
| Annotations: | Copious 16th-century marginal annotations, nota marks and underlining throughout; printed chapter headings in red repeated in manuscript at top right of each recto leaf; running book numbers “I”-“V” (frequently cropped by binder); two manuscript titles on front flyleaf. |
| Decoration: | Opening initial of books II – V supplied in gold on a square ground of pink and blue embellished with white tracery; other principal initials supplied throughout in red and blue with reserved white and set on a ground of pen-work decoration in red and blue, often with marginal flourishes. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting a1, a2, H3, Q1; large hole in r7 perhaps indicating removal of an initial; cc12 torn. |
