Thomas Aquinas: Summa theologiae: II, 2.
Mainz: Peter Schoeffer, 6 Mar. 1467.
Fol. [1-510 612 7-1010 11-138 14-1910 206 21-2610 276]. [258] leaves.
ISTC it00209000; GW M46483; Goff T209; BMC I 24 (IC. 122); Bod-inc T-172; CIBN T-175; BSB-Ink T-287.
Two copies held by University of Glasgow
Copy 1
| GIP number: | T22/1 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD9-a.4 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Variant: | 26/10v (f. 252v): colophon as BMC and Pellechet 1049 (main transcription) and not as Oates 30 or Pellechet 1049 (variant). Without the printer's device following the colophon, as recorded in some copies. |
| Provenance: | John Petheram (1807-1858), antiquary, publisher and bookseller in London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased book from Petheram 6 Nov. 1849 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code on verso of front free endpaper “6. 11. 49 abx/ Peth”; an early Euing inventory number “No 51” on front flyleaf; Euing’s armorial bookplate on front pastedown. University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | 18th/19th-century parchment; brown leather title and date labels on spine; marbled endpapers. Size: 412 x 300 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 400 x 293 mm. |
| Annotations: | “Quaestiones” numbered in margin in a 15th/16th-century hand; single manicule on 15/5r (f. 141r); early manuscript signatures; number “695” in ink in an early hand at top margin of 1/1r; symbol # in ink at top outer corner of 1/1r. |
| Decoration: | Initials and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout; marginal pencil drawing of head and shoulders on 14/3r (f. 129r). |
| Imperfections: | None. |
Copy 2
| GIP number: | T22/2 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.1.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 26/10v (f. 252v): colophon as BMC and Pellechet 1049 (main transcription) and not as Oates 30 or Pellechet 1049 (variant). Without the printer's device following the colophon, as recorded in some copies. |
| Note: | Printer’s pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Bellefaye (16th century): partially erased inscription on 27/6r (f. 258r) “Bellefaye A.M.” Jouan (16th century): inscription on 27/6r (f. 258r) “Jouan [paraph]”. Paris, Collège des Grands-Augustins: inscription on 2/1r (f. 11r) “Bibliothecae Augustinianae Generalis Collegii Parisiensis fol. 10”. Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 261 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 (along with lots 260 and 262) at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 483 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 and book-label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Aa.4.3”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century blue goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; watermark on front and rear flyleaves “MGIS MOLEN”. Size: 400 x 290 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 384 x 271 mm. |
| Annotations: | Below the colophon on 26/10v (f. 252v) is a brief 16th-century note on the date of printing, and a 17th/18th-century note on three incunabula in the library of Cardinal Mazarin and in the library of the abbey of St. Germain des Près; manuscript signatures added on first leaf of each quire. |
| Decoration: | On 1/1r an eleven-line initial “P” is supplied in blue with reserved white and with an infill of geometric decoration in red pen-work; principal initials throughout supplied in red, often with reserved white, and set on a square ground of lilac pen-work decoration which often extends into the margin; smaller initials supplied throughout in red, generally with reserved white; paragraph marks in red throughout; incipit in red on 1/1r; running ‘questio’ numbers supplied in red. |
| Imperfections: | 20/1 (f. 187) mutilated, with loss of text. |
