Johannes Chrysostomus: De compunctione cordis.
Add: De reparatione lapsi.
[Urach: Conrad Fyner, 1483-85?]
Fol. [1-38 410]. [34] leaves, the last blank.
ISTC ij00278000; Goff J278; BMC II 612 (IB. 9016); Bod-inc J-122.
Ascribed by Proctor to Esslingen, by BMC to Urach.
| Accession number: | 167521 |
| Bound with: | The third of five incunabula bound together. Bound with: (1) Johannes Chrysostomus, Commentarius in epistolam Sancti Pauli ad Hebraeos. [Urach: Conrad Fyner, not after July 1485]; (2) Johannes Chrysostomus, Homiliae super psalmum L. [Urach: Conrad Fyner, 1483-85?]; (4) Johannes Chrysostomus, Dialogi de dignitate sacerdotii. [Urach: Conrad Fyner, 1483-85?]; (5) Johannes Chrysostomus, Sermones morales XXV. [Urach: Conrad Fyner, 1483-85?] |
| Note: | Traces of offsetting of woodcuts on 4/10v (f. 34v). |
| Provenance: | Pickering & Chatto, booksellers and publishers, London (firm founded in 1820 by William Pickering, continued by his son, Basil Montagu Pickering, and purchased by Thomas Chatto in 1878): sold book to William Euing; item 680 in an unidentified Pickering catalogue (see below). William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: purchased from Pickering 31 Oct. 1854; Euing’s acquisition note with price code in pencil on verso of front free endpaper “31-10-54 No 680 Pick g/-” together with an early Euing inventory number “78” in pencil (“680” repeated in ink). Stirling’s Public Library (now part of the Mitchell Library), Glasgow: bookplate inscribed “A donation from Wm. Euing Esq”. |
| Binding: | 18th/19th-century red paper-covered pasteboards decorated with a blind-roll border; spine and edges repaired with red morocco; marbled endpapers. Size: 294 x 212 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 285 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional brief marginal annotations, pointing hands and “nota” marks in a 16th-century hand in gathering 4; 19th-century price “£3.13.6” in pencil on front flyleaf; 19th-century number “S122” in pencil on front pastedown. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
