Vallibus, Hieronymus de: Jesuida seu De passione Christi.
[Cologne: Cornelis de Zierikzee, ca. 1499]
4to. a-b6 c4. [16 leaves].
Woodcuts.
ISTC iv00084000; GW M49388; Goff V84; BMC I 307 (IA. 5239); CIBN H-138; BSB-Ink V-51.
| GIP number: | V8 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD1-c.41 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Edward Knight (fl. 1857-1874), bookseller, Islington, London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s pencil inventory number “No 534” on free front endpaper, repeated on a1r; purchased from Knight 20 Aug. 1859 according to Euing’s acquisitions inventory (University of Glasgow Library, MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: Euing bequest, 1874. |
| Binding: | Scotland, 19th-century brown goatskin decorated with double blind fillets; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; blue silk bookmark; binder’s ticket on free front endpaper “J. Carss & Co. Bookbinders, 31 Argyle Street, Glasgow.” Size: 195 x 135 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 190 x 128 mm. |
| Annotations: | Signatures added on unsigned leaves a1 and a2. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red, a few in red with reserved white; capital strokes supplied in red throughout; one paragraph mark in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
