Servasanctus de Faenza: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis.
Zwolle: [Johannes de Vollenhoe], 1479.
Fol. [110 2-428 436]. [344] leaves, 1, 11, 343, and 344 blank.
ISTC ib00948100; Goff Suppl. B948; BMC IX 80 (IB. 48104); GW 4811.
The attribution of the Sermones de tempore et de sanctis to Saint Bonaventura is spurious. The true author of the great majority of the Sermones is Servasanctus de Faenza - see B. Distelbrink, 'Bonaventurae scripta', 1975, p. 187 (no. 209), pp. 184-185 (no. 205). Entered under Pseudo- Bonaventura by GW, Bod-inc, CIBN and others. Goff notes that the work is sometimes erroneously attributed to Hugo de Sancto Caro.
Formerly assigned to Peter van Os (cf. HPT).
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-c.8 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Rotermund (19th century): name "Rotermund" on 1/2r. John Mozley Stark (fl. 1851-1888), bookseller, stationer, printer, and publisher, Hull & London: sold book to William Euing. William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing’s inventory number “No 91” in ink on 1/2r; purchased from Stark 3 June 1857 according to Euing’s acquisitions inventory (MS Euing 49). University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library bookplate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 19th-century blind-tooled calf; marbled endpapers; binder’s ticket on verso of front free endpaper “Bound by R. Nelson Glasgow”; 18th-century front and rear flyleaves retained, with watermark of a shield bearing the letter “D” supported by two lions rampant and surmounted by a crown. Size: 303 x 222 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 289 x 205 mm. |
| Annotations: | Occasional brief marginal annotations in a 15th/16th-century hand; early manuscript signatures, mainly in black ink but occasionally in red; bibliographical notes relating to this edition in a 19th-century German hand on front flyleaf. |
| Decoration: | Initials, paragraph marks, capital strokes, and underlining supplied in red throughout. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first and final two blank leaves. |
