Nicolaus de Hanapis:  [Virtutum vitiorumque exempla].  Exempla sacrae Scripturae ex utroque Testamento collecta.

[Paris:  Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473]
4to.   [1-910 1012].   [102] leaves (10/12 blank).
ISTC in00104500;  GW M26446;  Pell 4656;  CIBN N-54;  BSB-Ink N-101.

The work is an abbreviated alphabetical subject-arrangement of de Hanapis's Virtutum vitiorumque exempla, here printed anonymously.
The text is often attributed to S. Bonaventura with title Biblia pauperum (V. Scholderer in Gb Jb pp.61-62 = 50 Essays pp.140-41: Version B).

GIP number: N4
Shelf-mark: Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.31 (see main library entry for this item)
Bound with: The first of five incunabula bound together.   Bound with:  (2) Gerson, Johannes, De ecclesiastica potestate et de origine iuris et legum tractatus.  [Paris:  Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473-74] (G32);  (3) Gerson, Johannes, De auferibilitate Papae.  [Paris:  Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1474] (G28);  (4) Gerson, Johannes, De contractibus.  [Paris:  Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473-74] (G31);  (5) Gerson, Johannes, Conclusiones de diversis materiis moralibus, sive De regulis mandatorum.  [Paris:  Ulrich Gering, Martin Crantz and Michael Friburger, ca. 1473] (G27).
Provenance: Paris, Jesuits:  inscription on 1/1r “Coll. Paris. Soc. IESV”;  not found in Jesuit sale catalogues (Paris, 1763 and 1764).
Louis-Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV:  Gaignat sale, 1769;  lot 158 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive:  supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris:  1769). NB according to the Bibliothèque Méjanes annotated copy (Res. O. 189) of the Gaignat sale catalogue, Gaignat bought the book for 35 livres.
William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist:  purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 12 livres;  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.9.24”.
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;  green silk bookmark.   Size:  202 x 144 mm.
Leaf size: 195 x 135 mm.
Annotations: None.
Decoration: Text area enclosed within red ink rules and lines of text separated by red ink rules throughout;  initials, paragraph marks and capital strokes supplied in red throughout;  several line fillers in red;  running headings supplied in red throughout (a few cropped by binder).
Imperfections: None.

 

Ownership inscription, rubrication and manuscript initial in Nicolaus de Hanapis: Exempla sacrae Scripturae ex utroque Testamento collecta