Rolewinck, Werner: Paradisus conscientiae.
Cologne: Arnold Ther Hoernen, 1475.
Fol. [1-1310]. [130] leaves, the last blank. Woodcut printer's device in red.
ISTC ir00290000; Goff R290; BMC I 204.
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.11 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Printer's pin-holes visible. |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 375 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 24 livres 1 sou; see 'Dessain-Hunter correspondence' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f.25r). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Ad.9.19”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red morocco decorated with triple gold fillets, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 272 x 195 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 265 x 184 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal notes in an early hand; occasional “nota” marks; occasional filling-in by hand of imperfectly printed letters; gatherings numbered "1-13" (most numbers cropped). |
| Decoration: | Four initials in gatherings 1 and 2 supplied in red, green and black (or red, green and violet) with reserved white and with foliate decoration; other initials supplied in red throughout; capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlining supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the final blank leaf. |
