Nider, Johannes: Manuale confessorum.
Add: Dispositorium moriendi.
[Cologne: Ulrich Zel, ca. 1470]
4to. [1-138]. [104] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC in00177000; Goff N177; BMC I 185; Bod-inc N-078.
Dated ca. 1470 by Bod-inc following Polain and BSB-Ink.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian By.3.22 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 8/7v (f. 103v), line 8: “... moriendi. venerabilis”, as in Bod-inc, not as BMC “... moriēdi. Venerabilis”. |
| Provenance: | Metz, Lorraine, Celestine Monastery (suppressed 1774): ownership inscription on lower margin of 1/3r “Istud volumen est conuent[us] b[ea]te marie celestinor[um] de metis. Joh[ann]es nyder ...”; another Celestine inscription partially erased on top margin of 1/1r “... Celestinor[um] de metis”. Louis-Léon-Félicité, duc de Brancas de Lauraguais (1733-1824): lot 62 in Guillaume de Bure, 'Catalogue d’une collection de livres choisis, provenans du cabinet de M***' (Paris: 1770). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Brancas de Lauraguais sale through his agent, Peter Molini, for 24 livres 1 sou; see Molini’s bill to Hunter (University of Glasgow Library, Hunter Papers H214). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “N.6.9”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; gilt-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; green silk bookmark. Size: 219 x 148 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 214 x 140 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional “Nota” marks; vestiges of early signatures and numbering of gatherings. |
| Decoration: | Four-line initial “Q” on 1/1r supplied in red and blue with reserved white; other initials and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout; some underlining in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
