Boniohannes de Messana: Speculum sapientiae.
[Vienne: Eberhard Frommolt, not after 5 July 1481]
4to. [1-158]. [120] leaves (1/1 blank).
ISTC ic01019000; GW 7892; Goff C1019; BMC VIII 374 (IA. 42742); CIBN C-698.
Attributed on the title-page to S. Cyrillus; the true author is Boniohannes de Messana (Kaeppeli I 699) - ISTC.
Dated [before 6 July 1481] by CIBN; dated [before 3 Apr. 1483] by Goff.
| GIP number: | B98 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bx.3.18 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | Quires 6, 7, 8 misbound between quires 1 and 2. |
| Provenance: | Louis Jean Gaignat (1697-1768), Secretary to King Louis XV: Gaignat sale, 1769; lot 224 in Guillaume de Bure, Bibliographie instructive: supplément ... ou catalogue des livres de feu M. L.J. Gaignat, 2 vols (Paris: 1769). NB according to the Bibliothèque Méjanes annotated copy (Res. O. 189) of the Gaignat sale catalogue, Gaignat bought the book for 20 livres. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Gaignat sale through his agent, Jean-Baptiste Dessain, for 9 livres 1 sou; see Dessain-Hunter correspondence (University of Glasgow Library, MS Gen. 36, f. 24v). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest, 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “N.7.8”. |
| Binding: | France, 18th-century red goatskin; covers decorated with a triple gold-fillet border, a small gold fleuron at each corner; gold-tooled spine; marbled endpapers; gilt-edged leaves; turquoise silk bookmark. Size: 204 x 141 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 198 x 137 mm. |
| Annotations: | Interlinear correction to text on 15/5r (f.117r). Quires numbered “1”-“15” (by the 18th-century binder?) at extreme left-hand lower corner of first recto. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied in red throughout, many with pen-flourishing; frequent paragraph marks supplied in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting 15/8 (f.120). |
