Jacobus de Voragine: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis et Quadragesimales.
Lyons: [Jean Bachelier and Pierre Bartelot], 8 Aug. 1499.
4to. Part I: π8 2π6 a-u8. [174] leaves. Part II: π6 A-Z8 AA10. [200] leaves. Part III: π8 aa-ll8. [96] leaves. Part IV: a-c6. [18] leaves (c6 blank).
ISTC ij00200000; GW M11640; Goff J200; Bod-inc J-082; CIBN J-136; BSB-Ink I-114.
Printer also recorded as [Jean de Vingle] - see CIBN J-136, note.
| GIP number: | J11 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.14 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Johannes da Freti(?) (16th century): inscription on c5r of part IV “Ad vsum fr[atr]is Joh[an]is da Fretj(?)”. François de Los-Rios (1727-1820), bookseller, Lyons: book label on front pastedown “François de Los-Rios, Libraire, rue saint Dominique, à Lyon, vend & achete des Bibliotheques, s’en charge pour le compte des Particuliers, & en produit les Catalogues, ainsi qu’il fait de celles qui lui appartiennent: on trouve en outre chez lui environ dix mille volumes d’excellens Ouvrages & de hasard. 1772”. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Af.10.15”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century light brown sheep; covers decorated with a single gold-fillet border; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; red-edged leaves; green silk bookmark. Size: 195 x 139 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 190 x 131 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent underlining and occasional manicules in quires aa and bb of part III; on c5v of part IV an inscription in French dated 1549 “O dieu que ta bunte est grande & incomparable || et a tous biens viuans delictables”; damaged and partially deleted early inscription on π1r of part III. |
| Decoration: | Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the whole of parts I & II (the Sermones de tempore et de sanctis), and the blank leaf c6 of part IV. |
