Herolt, Johannes: Sermones Discipuli de tempore et de sanctis cum promptuario exemplorum et miraculis Beatae Mariae Virginis.
Cologne: [Ulrich Zel], 7 Mar. 1474.
Fol. Part I (Sermones de tempore): [1-210 38 412 5-1310 148 15-2610 278 286 29-4410 458 4610 47-5210 538 546]. [524] leaves (1/1, 54/6 blank). Part II (Sermones de sanctis): [1-1410]. [140] leaves (14/10 blank). Part III (Promptuarium exemplorum): [1-610 78 8-1710 186]. [174] leaves. Part IV (Promptuarium de miraculis BVM): [1-310 46]. [36] leaves.
ISTC ih00098000; GW 12340; Goff H98; CIBN H-59.
GW records two other Zell editions (GW 12342 & 12345) and mixed copies are known; this copy conforms exactly to GW 12340.
| GIP number: | H13 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Antwerp, Augustinian Canonesses of Faconshof: inscription on 1/2r of part II “Facons”. Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): arms on both covers (Olivier 740); lot 69 in Guillaume de Bure, Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M*** (Paris: 1770) - there attributed to Leonardus de Utino (see Annotations). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Peter Molini, for 36 livres 19 sous; see Molini’s bill to Hunter (University of Glasgow Library, Hunter Papers, H214). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Be.7.18”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner and eight larger ornaments at the corners and edges, and with the Brancas de Lauraguais arms in gilt in the centre of each cover; gold-tooled-spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; red silk bookmark; at the front are inserted four leaves of paper which have been pricked and ruled in double columns; two similar leaves are inserted at the rear. Size: 295 x 217 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 288 x 209 mm. |
| Annotations: | Early signatures; quires of parts II-IV numbered “2”-“37” in an 18th-century hand in extreme inner lower corner of first leaf recto (the two groupings of ruled leaves at the front and rear being designated as “1” and “38” respectively); 18th-century title “Sermones Leon: de Utino de Sanctis. editio Primaria” on verso of fourth leaf of ruled paper at front of volume. |
| Decoration: | Four-line initial “L” on 1/2r of part II supplied in red, blue and reserved white with purple pen-work decoration extending into the inner margin; other initials throughout supplied in red or in red with reserved white; paragraph marks and initial strokes in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting part I. |
