Jacobus de Theramo: Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Belial.
[Louvain]: Johann Veldener, [between 7 Aug. 1474 and 1475]
Fol. [1-910 106]. [96] leaves.
ISTC ij00065500; GW M11051; Polain(B) 2178; BMC IX 136 (IB. 49101).
On the place of printing, see HPT I, 20; and Paul Needham, "William Caxton and his Cologne partners: an enquiry based on Veldener’s Cologne type" in Ars impressoria: Entstehung und Entwicklung des Buchdrucks. Eine internationale Festgabe für Severin Corsten zum 65. Geburtstag, ed. H. Limburg, H. Lohse, and W. Schmitz (München: 1986), pp. 123-4.
| GIP number: | J4 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.3 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Errors of imposition in quire 3: the text proper to 3/8r, 3/9r, 3/10r has printed on 3/9r, 3/10r, 3/8r. |
| Note: | The ten quires are displaced by the binder as follows: 1, 2, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 3, 4, 10. |
| Bound with: | When acquired by Hunter, this copy of the Consolatio peccatorum was bound with a copy of Gesta Romanorum [Cologne: Printer of the 'Flores Sancti Augustini' (Johann Schilling), for William Caxton, 1472] (G37) - see Hunter’s undated manuscript note tipped-in at the front of his copy of Gesta Romanorum: “This book I met with in a sale bound up with J. de Theranio [sic] Consolatio Peccatorum printed at Colonia 1474. The Type & paper the same, & therefore no doubt the printer, viz Joh. Veldener”. Hunter had the two incunabules rebound separately in identical bindings. |
| Provenance: | Thomas Knyvett (16th/17th century): signature on 1/2r ‘Thomas Knyuett’ in violet ink on 1/2r of first item in volume; probably not to be identified with Sir Thomas Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe (c. 1539-1618) since not listed in D.J. McKitterick, The library of Sir Thomas Knyvett of Ashwellthorpe, c.1539-1618 (Cambridge: 1978). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ad.8.18”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century calf; covers decorated with a gold-fillet border; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; pale green-edged leaves. Size: 274 x 213 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 269 x 206 mm. |
| Annotations: | “intulatur” in first line of colophon corrected by hand to “intitulatur”; title written in red crayon in a 16th-century hand on 1/1r “Belial [id est] p[ro]cess[us] Iur[is] et [con]sola[ti]o p[e]cc[at]or[um]”. |
| Decoration: | Occasional guide-letters supplied in brown ink. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
