Incunabula: annotations index

Significant notes and/or textual annotations are indexed here. Many of the books contain brief bibliographical and ownership notes made by later owners (ie. 17th century onwards) - these are noted in the individual descriptions of the books but are not indexed here. Annotations that have been so washed out as to be illegible are mentioned in the individual records, but not indexed here.

 Annotations have been grouped as follows:

Mottoes/proverbs

167508: 17th century proverb "heu quam difficile est crime[n] no[n] prodere vultu" on i4r.Al-c.9: (possibly - of Brunyncx)
An-y.10: motto “In vitiu[m] ducit culpae fuga” (from Horace, De arte poetica) on verso of front free endpaper.
An-y.29: (in parallel Latin and Greek)
BC6-h.8: On [a1r] in a late 15th/early 16th-century hand are three couplets headed “Alexander Haegi[ius] de epo[dis]” i.e. Alexander Hegius of Heek (d. Deventer, 1498)
BD7-d.2: (one in Latin; one in French)
BD7-d.13: motto(?) in German in red ink (written by the rubricator?) on [o5v] (leaf  [140v]) “Hoffen ist meynn hochstes heil”.
BD9-a.2: quotation from Psalm 46:2 in red ink in a 16th-century(?) hand: “omnes gentes pla[u]dite manib[us] Iubil[ate]”.
BD9-b.5: motto of Johannes Jacobus Sattler (fl. 1611), of Tuttlingen (Baden-Württemberg): "Viue, Vale, memor mej".
BD15-i.23: (Latin with German translation)
Be.2.5: motto “Justitia est constans et perpetua” in a 17th-century hand on [a1r]
Be.3.17: motto of Sforza family of Milan: "Merito et Tempore".
Be.3.25: (motto taken from Ovid “passibus ambiguis fortuna” on [l10v] (leaf [96v])
Bf.3.10 (item 2): pen-and-ink device in the shape of a trefoil on a plinth incorporating the letters “M” and “B” and the motto “veritas odit moras”.
Bg.1.1: unread partially-cropped 17th-century motto(?) associated with the name G. Garton.
Bg.2.22: partially read motto(?) in a 16th-century hand on a1r “Dulcia vita [...]”.
Bg.2.23: (motto of Johan Radermacher)
Bh.1.17 (item 1): motto(?) “Eme, lege, fruere , selige H van der Voort van Deurn” on A1r.
Bh.2.19: Malenfant’s motto “ἄνω κὰι μῂ κάτω”, and a quotation in Greek from Demosthenes.
Bh8-e.10 (item 1): motto of David Wauchope: “Sola est dej gr[ati]a que ho[mi]n[em] a morte liberat deo gra[tias]” and of John Greenlaw: “S[ingulariter] in spe”.
Bh8-e.10 (item 2): mottoes of David Wauchope: “Confid[en]s In d[omi]no: vita[m] ama: mort[em] fug[a]” and “Sola est dej gr[ati]a que ho[mi]n[em] a morte liberat deo g[ra]tias Am[en]” and of John Greenlaw: “S[ingulariter] in spe”.
Bk5-g.22: (item 1: one in Latin; one in Scots)
Bm1-e.10: several quotations or mottoes in a 17th-century hand, including on a2r “In my Defence god me Defend”, on d5r “In tyme of welth think on distress hie [th]at [th]is wrett god send him grace”, on ſ4r “Qui cito donauit munera bina dedit”, “Dico tibi v[er]um libertas optima reru[m] nunq[uam] seruilj sub nexu viuito fili”, “Constans aut lenis sicut res postulat esto temporibus mores sapiens sine crimine mutat”, and on v1r “Tempora mutant[ur] et nos mutamur i[n] illis.  Si Chrystum scire vis satis est si cętera nescis”.
Bm8-g.10: motto “Virtute, non aliter” in an early hand on hh8r (lightly scored through);  a partially read motto “Age quam [...] agas” in an early hand on a2r.
Bn6-d.1: (in parallel Latin and Greek)
Bv.2.10: various rhymes, sayings and quotations in Latin and English in 16th/17th century hands throughout.
Bv.2.12: a rhyming English proverb on the characteristics of people with different hair colour in a 16th-century hand on F8v.
Bv.2.31 (item 1) & Bv.2.31 (item 2): on recto of second front flyleaf several quotations or mottoes:  “Tenet insanabile multos scribendi cacoethes” (Juvenal, Satires, VII, 51-2), “Scribimus docti indoctique” (Horace, Epistles, II, 95-6), “Nescire quid antea quam natus sis acciderit, id est semper esse puerum” (Cicero, De oratore, 34, 10), and “ὃργανον τῆς παιδείας οὐκ ᾑ κτῆσις, ἀλλ’ ᾑ χρῆσις των βιβλίων” (Plutarch, De liberis educandis, 10) - the latter with the date 1706 added.
Bw.2.6: (motto(?) in a humanist hand on a1r “cortina omne g[e]nus c[al]daie” [a tentative reading]).
Bw.3.5: (motto of Joannes Grandus of Avignon)
Bw.3.14: (2 Latin mottoes associated with 16th/17th century initial 'R.M.')
Bw.3.18 :(Latin)
Bw.3.27: motto “Vng seul espoir”, written above a painted shield in lower margin of [a1r] bearing the arms of the House of Souvré.
Bw.3.34: proverb “A cader va qui troppo sale” (= “He who climbs too high will fall” = “rashness leads to ruin”) - cf. Petrarch, 'Canzionere', 307 “A cader va chi troppo sale” on p8v associated with a deleted ownership (?) inscription.
Bx.2.9: on the recto of a blank leaf inserted before [a2] are various inscriptions including a motto “Verbum domini manet in eternu[m]” (motto of the Lutheran Reformation)
Bx.3.8: (motto of Rauff Veniste)
Bx.3.39: (motto of John Reed/Beed?)
By.2.10: (motto of Carolus Waltman fl. 1581)
By.3.29: (Latin)
Cm.1.3: 16th/17th century proverbs in English.
Dp-e.6: various 16th-century English and Latin proverbs, biblical and classical.
Dr-d.6: quotation or motto on a1r “Si Christum discis satis est si caetera nescis:  Si Christum nescis [satis - scored through] nihil est quod caetera discis”.
Dt-d.14: (Latin)
Eg7-b.6: mottoes in a 17th-century hand on a2r “In no[m]i[n]e tuo laxabo rete mea[m]” and “Spes mea Jhesus”.
K.T. f2: sayings and phrases in Italian on verso of first rear flyleaf and on recto of second rear flyleaf.
Mu14-f.20: motto of Ludovicus Scholl (16th century), "Ps[almus] Veritas de terra Justitia de celo 84’".
Mu51-b.16: early biblical inscription from Proverbs in red ink.