Nider, Johannes: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis cum quadragesimali.
Speyer: Peter Drach, 13 Nov. 1479.
Fol. [110 2-98 1010 11-198 2010 218 2210 23-318 32-336]. [268] leaves.
Woodcut printer’s device.
ISTC in00217000; Goff N217; BMC II 490; Bod-inc N-100.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-c.5 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Schönau, Hesse-Nassau, Benedictines, S. Florinus: 15th/16th-century inscription on 1/1r “Libru[m] istu[m] [con]tulit s[an]c[t]o florino in sconaug d[omi]n[u]s osualdus pleban[us] n[oste]r in lipporn req[ui]escat in pace” followed by manuscript title in a different hand and by a shelfmark “HXIIP” (the latter in red ink); shelfmark “B8” in black ink on fore-edge; shelfmark “H.xij” in black ink on lower edge. Osualdus (fl. 15th/16th century), ‘Dominus Plebanus’ in Lipporn - see above. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: source unknown; an early Euing inventory number “60” in pencil on front pastedown and verso of front free endpaper. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century blind-tooled calf over bevelled boards; binder’s ticket ‘Bound by Carss & Coy. Glasgow’; thin parchment manuscript guards visible at the middle of each gathering; eight parchment tabs. Size: 307 x 227 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 297 x 212 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional early marginal annotations, “nota” marks and corrections of text e.g. in gathering 7. |
| Decoration: | Seven-line initial ‘C’ on 19/6v (f. 154v) supplied in dull red on a square ground of brown pen-work decoration extending into the centre margin; a similar six-line initial ‘V’ on 23/1r (f. 185r); all other initials supplied in red; paragraph marks in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
