Marchesinus, Johannes: Mammotrectus super Bibliam.
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 10 Nov. 1470.
Fol. [1-410 58 6-710 88 94 (9/3+χ1) 10-1110 128 136 1410 154]. [129] leaves.
Woodcut printer’s device in red.
ISTC im00232000; GW M20801; Goff M232; Bod-inc M-080; CIBN M-117; BSB-Ink M-154.
Note: This copy collates as Bod-inc, not as BSB-Ink.
| GIP number: | M15 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.1.2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Note: | Stub showing between 9/1 and 9/2. |
| Provenance: | Trier, North Rhine-Westphalia, Benedictines, S. Maximinus (Imperiale Monasterium S. Maximini): inscription on 5/8r (f. 48r) “Codex mo[na]sterij s[an]c[t]i maximi[ni] p[ro]pe t[r]euer[is]” and a similar inscription on 8/7v (f. 75v). Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 134 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 55 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Af.2.4”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; pink silk bookmark. Size: 339 x 245 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 332 x 232 mm. |
| Annotations: | Very occasional marginal annotations and interlinear corrections in an early hand; quires numbered at extreme lower inner corner of first leaf recto “1”-“15”. |
| Decoration: | Initial “I” and six-line initial “F” on 1/1r supplied in red with purple pen-work embellishment extending into margin; other initials supplied in red throughout, many with pen-work flourishes; running headlines, paragraph marks and underlining supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
