Duranti, Guillelmus: Rationale divinorum officiorum.
Edited by Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus.
Rome: Georgius Lauer, 20 Feb. 1477.
Fol. [14 2-510 6-98 1010 11-126 13-1410 158 166 1710 188 196 208 21-2210 238 2410 25-288 29-3110 328 3310 34-378]. [314] leaves (2/1 blank).
ISTC id00413000; GW 9112; Goff D413; BMC IV 40 (IB. 17514); CIBN D-288; BSB-Ink D-332.
| GIP number: | D33 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll BD7-b.15 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 37/8r, line 44: ‘... mgistrū georgiū ...’ as BMC not ‘ ... mgȓm Georgiū ...’ as GW. |
| Provenance: | William Euing (1788-1874), insurance broker, Glasgow: Euing's pencil inventory number "21" on verso of front free endpaper; source unknown. University of Glasgow: presented by Euing in 1872 according to University Library book-plate on front pastedown. |
| Binding: | 19th-century blind-tooled calf; red-edged leaves; marbled endpapers; green silk bookmark. Size: 335 x 230 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 323 x 217 mm. |
| Annotations: | A few early marginal annotations and nota marks; some underlining; many instances of faintly printed letters strengthened by hand; occasional guide-letters supplied; foliated ‘iiij-ccciij’ in an early hand from 2/5-37/8 (ff. 9-314) and also in arabic numerals (many of the latter cropped); running book numbers on rectos; title ‘rationale diuinorum’ in a 16th-century hand on recto of blank 2/1 (f. 5) with tables of dates (relating to the reckoning of Ash Wednesday and Easter) from the years 1491 to 1515 written on verso. Price ‘£1.16.0’ in pencil (lightly scored through) on 1/1r and another unread pencil annotation (a possible price?) on the same page; sheet of paper tipped onto front free endpaper with extract from T.F. Dibdin, A descriptive catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century, lately forming part of the library of the Duke di Cassano Serra (1823) and a reference to G.B. Auffredi, Catalogus historico-criticus Romanarum editionum saeculi XV (1783). |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Bifolium 6/4.5 (ff. 48 and 49) wanting and supplied in manuscript facsimile. |
