Turrecremata, Johannes de: Meditationes seu Contemplationes devotissimae.
[Mainz]: Johann Neumeister, 3 Sept. 1479.
Fol. [1-68 72]. [50] leaves, the first and last blank. Collation based on sewing, watermarks, and 18th-century binder's pencil numbering of quires.
34 metalcuts.
ISTC it00539000; GW M48255; Goff T539; BMC I 43 (IB. 324); CIBN T-390; BSB-Ink T-563
| GIP number: | T38 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.26 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 378 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 121 livres; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 25r) [entry erroneously dated 1473]. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Av.5.8”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin decorated with triple gold fillets, a gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 288 x 204 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 282 x 197 mm. |
| Annotations: | None. |
| Decoration: | Three-line initial “O” on 1/2r and two-line initial “S” on 6/5r (f. 45r) supplied in red and blue with reserved white, other initials supplied throughout in red or blue; text and metalcuts enclosed within red ink rules. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf. |
