Bonaventura [pseudo-]: Meditationes vitae Christi.

Augsburg:  Günther Zainer, 12 Mar. [14]68.
Fol. [1¹⁰ 2-4⁸ 5-7¹⁰ 8⁸].  [72] leaves (1/1 blank).
ISTC ib00893000;  GW 4739;  Goff B893;  BMC II 315 (IB. 5402);  Bod-inc B-441;  CIBN B-659;  BSB-Ink B-681.
The pseudo-Bonaventuran Meditationes vitae Christi is the work of a Franciscan of San Gimignano in Tuscany, in all probability Johannes de Caulibus -- see BMC XI 172.

GIP number:	B92
Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll BD7-b.8 (see main library entry for this item)
Variant:	1/3r, line 1:  “[I]Nter alia virtutū et laudū preconia ...” as in GW’s main transcription, not as in GW Anm.;  4/5r (f. 31r), line 1:  “⁊ extendens ſanatus eſt ...” as in Bod-inc and GW Anm.
Note:	Printer's pin-holes visible.
Provenance:	William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow:  source unknown;  an early Euing inventory number “3” in pencil on verso of front free endpaper, together with his engraved armorial book-plate. University of Glasgow:  presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown.
Binding:	19th-century diced brown calf, rebacked;  covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner;  marbled endpapers;  gilt-edged leaves.   Size:  308 x 224 mm.
Leaf size:	297 x 214 mm.
Annotations:	Erased 16th/17th-century ownership inscription on 1/2r beginning “Coll ...”;  excerpts copied from Santander, Dictionnaire bibliographique choisi du quinzième siècle, II, p. 235 and Dibdin, Bibliotheca Spenceriana, III, p. 194, pasted onto front endpapers.
Decoration:	Initials supplied throughout in red, some with reserved white, often with pen-flourishing;  capital strokes and paragraph marks supplied in red throughout;  chapter headings and colophon underlined in red.
Imperfections:	Wanting the blank leaf 1/1 (stub visible).