Leo I, Pont. Max.: Sermones.

Edited by Johannes Andreas de Bussis, bishop of Aleria.

[Rome:  Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, after 7 March-before 21 Sept. 1470]
Fol.   [1⁴ 2-9¹⁰ 10⁸ 11-15¹⁰ 16⁸ 17¹⁰].   [160] leaves (1/1, 17/10 blank).
ISTC il00128500;  GW M17804;  Goff L131;  BMC IV 29 (IB. 17429);  Bod-inc L-063;  CIBN L-112;  BSB-Ink L-99.

Two copies held by University of Glasgow.

Copy 1

GIP number:	L13/2
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll T.C.L. f12 (see main library entry for this item)
Note:	18th/19th-century title-page inserted with imprint “Romę E Prelo Conradi Sweynheim et Arnoldi Pannartz MCCCCLXX”, printed on paper with a watermark of a crowned shield bearing a fleur-de-lys and with the letters "J B" suspended below the shield.
Provenance:	Louis XVIII (1755-1824), King of France (possible owner, rather than one of his immediate predecessors of the same name?):  five spine compartments are tooled with a stamp of the royal arms of France: a shield bearing three fleurs-de-lys, which is surmounted by a crown also incorporating fleurs-de-lys and surrounded by the collar of the Ordre du Saint-Esprit – the latter includes the badge of the Order, a Maltese cross, here flanked on each side by the initial ‘L’ (no exact replica found in Olivier, 2495-8). Free Church College Library, Glasgow (later Trinity College Library), founded 1856:  Trinity College Library bookplate and shelfmark “40 B 5” in pencil on front free endpaper;  source unknown. University of Glasgow:  Trinity College Library placed on permanent deposit in University of Glasgow Library in 1974 by the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.
Binding:	France, 18th/19th-century mottled calf;  gold-tooled spine - see Provenance;  red leather title label on spine;  sprinkled red-edged leaves;  parchment guard-strips in the middle of each quire.   Size: 326 x 230 mm.
Leaf size:	318 x 223 mm.
Annotations:	Occasional manicules and nota marks.
Decoration:	On 2/1r (f. 5r) a six-line initial “L” is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration defined in crimson, blue and green, which extends into the inner, upper and lower margins - the decoration of the lower margin incorporates an unfilled green laurel wreath edged in gold;  on 8/3r (f. 67r) a six-line initial “S” is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration, which extends into the inner margin;  on 12/10r (f. 112r) a three-line initial “S” is supplied in gold on a square ground of green and blue embellished with white filigree-work, and with sprays of gold flower buds extending into the inner margin;  on 13/7r (f. 119r) a six-line initial “O” (in error for “H”) is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration, which extends into the inner margin;  a similarly decorated six-line initial “O” is supplied on 14/5v (f. 127v);  other initials supplied in blue throughout.
Imperfections:	Wanting the blank leaves 1/1 and 17/10.

 

Copy 2

GIP number:	L13/1
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.1.13 (see main library entry for this item)
Provenance:	Eroli family, Italy (15th/16th century):  on 2/1r (f. 5r) is a partially identified coat of arms - per pale, the dexter side per fess gules and argent (oxidised), three ivy leaves vert two and one (Eroli family), the sinister side azure a bend argent (oxidised) an eight-pointed mullet or in chief (unidentified).  An identical coat of arms is to be found in the Hunterian copy of another work from the same press:  Ambrosius, De officiis. [Rome:  Johannes Philippus de Lignamine, ca. 1471] (shelfmark Bw.2.11, A55). Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 248 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 68 livres 1 sou;  see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24v). University of Glasgow:  Hunterian bequest, 1807;  Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ak.3.2”.
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 underlaid with marbling;  turquoise silk bookmark;  bunch of grapes watermark on flyleaves.   Size:  342 x 237 mm.
Leaf size:	332 x 227 mm.
Annotations:	Occasional marginal annotations in a 15th/16th-century hand;  some chapter headings added in a 16th-century hand;  early manuscript signatures;  foliated in an early hand “1”-“23” from 1/2-3/10 (ff. 2-24).
Decoration:	On 2/1r (f. 5r) a six-line initial “L” is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration defined in crimson, blue and green, which extends with gold borders into the inner, upper and lower margins;  foliate decoration in blue with gold flower buds in the outer margin of the same page, and the white-vine decoration of the lower margin includes a green laurel wreath edged in gold, within which is a painted coat of arms (see Provenance);  on 8/3r (f. 67r) a six-line initial “S” is supplied in gold on a square ground of white-vine decoration, which extends into the inner margin;  a similarly decorated six-line initial “H” is supplied on 13/7r (f. 119r) and a six-line initial “O” on 14/5v (f. 127v);  smaller initials and paragraph marks supplied in alternate red and blue throughout.
Imperfections:	None.