Honorius Augustodunensis: De praedestinatione et libero arbitrio.
De cognitione verae vitae.
[Strassburg: C.W., ca. 1471]
Fol. [1-410]. [40] leaves (4/10 blank).
ISTC ih00323400; GW 12943; BMC II 411 (IB. 7106); CIBN H-189.
Assigned to C.W. (sometimes identified tentatively as Clas Wencker or Conrad Wolfach) by P. Needham, in British Library Journal, 6 (1980), pp. 130-43 (cf. BMC II 409). Recorded as [Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, ca. 1471] in BMC.
| GIP number: | H36 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.2.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible in upper and lower margins. |
| Bound with: | The third of three incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Nider, Johannes, Manuale confessorum. [Strassburg: C.W., not after 1471] (N13); (2) Nider, Johannes, De morali lepra. [Strassburg: C.W., not after 1471] (N10). |
| Provenance: | Metz, Lorraine, Celestine Monastery (suppressed 1774): faded inscription on 1/1r of first item in volume “[...] Celestino[rum] de Metae” together with a shelfmark in a different hand “E.45”. Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): lot 61 in Guillaume de Bure, Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M*** (Paris: 1770). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Pietro Molini, for 25 livres 5 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 “Au.4.10”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves. Size: 302 x 217 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 295 x 207 mm. |
| Annotations: | Title in ink on 1/1r “Quid sit p[rae]destinatio tractatu[s]”; occasional one-word early marginal annotations; vestiges of an early numbering in ink on first recto of each quire. |
| Decoration: | Five-line initial “T” on 1/1r and four-line initial “S” on 2/7v (f. 17v) supplied in red and faded blue/green with reserved white; other initials supplied throughout in red or faded blue/green; chapter headings underlined in red; paragraph marks in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf 4/10. |
