Thomas Aquinas: Super primo libro Sententiarum Petri Lombardi.
Cologne: Heinrich Quentell, 10 July 1480.
Fol. a6 2a6 b-y8 A-G8 H-Y6. [326] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC it00160000; Goff T160; BMC I 262 (IB. 4381).
Accession number: | 167531 |
Provenance: | William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: owner; source unknown. Stirling’s Public Library (now part of the Mitchell Library), Glasgow: bookplate; donated by William Euing according to A.G. Hepburn, 'Catalogue of incunables and S.T.C. books in the Mitchell Library, Glasgow' (Glasgow: 1964), item 41, though no evidence of Euing’s ownership in the book itself. |
Binding: | 16th-century blind-tooled calf over wooden boards; front and rear covers decorated with quadruple fillets to form two concentric rectangles; the inner rectangle is divided by quadruple fillets into four lozenge and eight triangular-shaped compartments, which are decorated with three lozenge-shaped Pegasus stamps of different designs; the outer rectangle is decorated at each corner with a small stamp of two concentric circles with four stars around their circumference; rebacked in the 19th century and given a red leather title label (original spine covering lost); remains of two brass clasps; square paper label pasted onto top spine compartment bearing the printed number “6”. Size: 311 x 209 mm. |
Leaf size: | 300 x 202 mm. |
Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in a 16th-century hand in the early gatherings; first gathering signed “A” additionally in manuscript; 19th-century annotations on front pastedown “a folio 265” in blue crayon, “2004” in ink, “S121” in pencil; numbers “265” in blue crayon, “000/” in ink (scored through), together with an unread code on rear pastedown. |
Decoration: | On 2a1r a five-line initial “E” is supplied in red and embellished with violet pen-work which extends into the inner margin; a similarly decorated six-line initial “H” in blue is supplied on b1r; smaller initials throughout supplied in red or in red with reserved white; paragraph marks and capital strokes in red throughout. |
Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf; wanting d1.8 (stubs showing for both leaves and the gaps noted in an early hand “deest vnu[m] folliu[m]” in lower margins of c8v and d7v. |