Thomas Aquinas: Expositio (Postilla) in Job.
[Esslingen]: Conrad Fyner, 1474.
Fol. [14 2-910 10-118 126 (12/6+1)]. [107] leaves.
ISTC it00236000; GW M46296; Goff T236; BMC II 513 (IB. 8919); Bod-inc T-129; CIBN T-137; BSB-Ink T-238.
| GIP number: | T16 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-d.1 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Blind impressions of four lines of type below colophon on final leaf. |
| Provenance: | Samuel Parr (1747-1825), schoolmaster: book label on front pastedown and inscription on 1/1r ‘liber rarus S. Parr’; 'Bibliotheca Parriana' (London: 1827), p. 103; sale (part I, 30 May 1828), lot 827; sold to Darling for £0.4.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the sale catalogue. James Darling (1797-1862), bookseller and bibliographer, London. Maurice Ogle & Son, Booksellers, Royal Exchange Square, Glasgow (1832-1871): sold book to William Euing, 2 June 1846. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Ogle; Euing’s pencil acquisition note “2. 6/46 Ogle” on front pastedown and his inventory numbers “No 4203 ... 2 copies” and “No. 68 old cat.”; Euing’s manuscript acquisitions inventory (MS Euing 49, item 4203) confirms that on 8 June 1869 he acquired a second copy from the London bookseller, Thomas Arthur, which was presumably later disposed of as a duplicate. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to one of the two University Library bookplates on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 18th-century(?) half pigskin, speckled paper-covered boards, two gilt author and title labels on spine (a third label at the foot of spine now largely lost); sprinkled red-edged leaves; some flyleaves have watermark of a heart bisected vertically by a sword (or cross) and the letters “A” and “W” within. Size: 303 x 219 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 296 x 213 mm. |
| Annotations: | Author, title and imprint given in a 19th-century hand on 1/1r; 19th-century references to Panzer, Braun, Zapf, Seemiller and Helmschrott in a German hand on front free endpaper, together with a note in French “Tous les Ouvrages sortis des presses de Conrad Fyner sont rares. Celui-ci est un des premiers qu’il a publié”; various numbers on front pastedown including “N. 46” and the letters “CW”. |
| Decoration: | Initials and capital strokes supplied in red throughout; occasional underlining in red; rubricator has written at head of 2/1r (f. 5r) “S. thomas d’aquino”. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
