Angelus de Clavasio: Summa angelica de casibus conscientiae.
Add: Letter to the author from Hieronymus Torniellus; Poem to the reader by Jacobinus Suigus.
Strassburg: Martin Flach (printer of Strassburg), 1 Dec. 1491.
Fol. [*8] [†8] a-f8.6 g-k6 l8 m-o6 p8 q-s6 t-y8.6 z6 A6 B-I8.6 K-L6 M8 N-Q6 R8 S-U6 X8 Y6 Z8 AA8 BB-CC6 DD-GG6.8. [16], I-CCCLIII, [1] leaves (the last leaf blank). Gatherings [*] and [†] are numbered, but not signed.
ISTC ia00721000; GW 1932; Goff A721; BMC I 151 (IB. 2160); Bod-inc A-290; CIBN A-388; BSB-Ink A-530.
| GIP number: | A63 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bl6-e.2 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | William Braidfut/Broadfoot (15th/16th century): inscription “Liber vilemi Braidfut” on [*1r]. Robert Braidfut/Broadfoot (15th/16th century): inscription “Liber Roberti Braidfut” in black ink on [*2r], repeated in red ink on a1r and in black ink on GG7v. Andrew Duncan (fl. 1550): inscription “liber andree duncane s[er]uitor[is] regine” [i.e. Mary Queen of Scots] on GG7v. John Paterson (fl. 1553): inscriptions on [*1r] “Pro fr[atr]ibus mi[n]oribus de stirling ex dono d[omi]nj Joha[n]nis paterson[e]” and “hu[n]c libru[m] [con]tulit d[omi]n[u]s Joha[n]nes pat[er]son[e] fr[atr]i Jo[han]nj roger et placet nobis vt remaneat in isto [conuentu] striueli[n]gen[si] p[ro] co[mmun]itate teste ma[nu] p[ro]p[ri]a fr[ater] Jo[hannes] rog[er] ma[nu] sua s[crip]sit”; inscription on GG7v (under ultra-violet lamp) “Nu[n]c v[er]o p[rese]ns lib[er] spectat con[uentui] fr[atru]m m[i[norum] [...] ex dono [...] Johannis pa[tersone] p[ro] c[uius] salute oretur [...] A[n]no domini 1553”. John Roger, Franciscan (mid 16th century): see above. Stirling, Franciscans: inscription “liber fr[atru]m mi[n]or[um] striuelingens[ium]” on [*1r], repeated on [*2r]. For all the above ownership inscriptions, see Durkan & Ross, 139. University of Glasgow: source unknown; shelfmark “H f.5 n.9” on [*2r] matching entry in 'Catalogus librorum Bibliothecae Universitatis Glasguensis anno 1691' (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 1313); shelfmark “CE.6.14” on University Library bookplate matching entry in A. Arthur, 'Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis', (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | England, 20th-century quarter brown goatskin, marbled paper-covered boards; rebound by Douglas Cockerell & Son, Aug. 1966 and given new endpapers; replacing a 17th-century binding of speckled brown calf with a double blind fillet border; original red-edging of leaves retained; sample of original covers mounted on rear pastedown; typescript binder’s note tipped onto rear pastedown. Size: 271 x 195 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 262 x 189 mm. Evidence from the untrimmed folded lower corner of S1 and folded upper corner of EE3 shows that the actual leaf dimensions before cropping by an early binder were 285 x 200 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional marginal annotations in 15th/16th-century hands; underlining throughout in red ink in an early hand. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf GG8; first and last few leaves damaged. |
